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Trump formally clinches Electoral College victory with Texas’ 40 votes
From CNN's
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| 12/17/24
| Ethan Cohen
Posted on 12/17/2024 12:52:16 PM PST by BigEdLB
President-elect Donald Trump has received enough electoral votes to officially clinch the presidency, a major milestone that he reached when Texas’ electors awarded him the state’s 40 electoral votes at their meeting Tuesday in Austin. While Trump won the election on November 5, his victory was formalized Tuesday as presidential electors gathered across the country as part of the constitutional process to officially elect a President known as the Electoral College. More on the process: It takes 270 of the 538 electoral votes to be elected President. Trump won 312 in November’s election to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226. So far, every elector has voted for the candidate they were elected to represent. Next, each state’s votes will be sent to Congress. Lawmakers will meet in joint session on January 6 to formally tally the electoral votes and officially declare Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance the next president and vice president. Trump and Vance will take office at noon on January 20, 2025.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2024; 2024election; austin; donaldtrump; election2024; electoralcollege; electoralvote; jdvance; maga; ohio; presidentelecttrump; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr; texas; trump; trump2024; trump47
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I love it when a plan comes together
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:52:16 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
To: BigEdLB
Right now it is 295-153 Trump!
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:53:30 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: BigEdLB
It will be hilarious to see Kamala reject objections to Trump’s victory from fellow Democrats.
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:53:53 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: BigEdLB
But...but....the idiotic Dims NOW want to abolish the Electoral College vote.
🙃
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:54:21 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Jesus is Lord!)
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:56:01 PM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: BigEdLB
Haven’t had OR or CA yet. Let’s see how many flakeouts in CA...
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:56:35 PM PST
by
StAnDeliver
(TrumpII)
To: BigEdLB
I love it when a plan comes togetherHannibal?
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:58:22 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: BigEdLB

Sir, Raskin
still wants to stop this when they count votes in congress....
We should make him an offer he can't refuse
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posted on
12/17/2024 12:59:08 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: StAnDeliver
I wonder if a Kamala elector will vote for, “Brandon”
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:00:07 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:01:21 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: BigEdLB
This is good news; not that it would happen again but as I recall in 2016 there were three Texas electors who were pledged to Trump who didn’t vote for him.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:01:29 PM PST
by
laconic
( )
To: laconic
there were a bunch of electors from blue states that did not vote for Hillary. I wonder how many will not vote for Kamala.
To: BigEdLB
Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:04:14 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: BigEdLB
“Lawmakers will meet in joint session on January 6 to formally tally the electoral votes and officially declare Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance the next president and vice president.”
I have it on very good authority that the Vice President is allowed to reject electoral college votes.
To: Jane Long
Their ‘excuse’ was that the ‘popular vote’ is what counts.
Trump won that too, so now they have no excuse whatsoever..............
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:08:34 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I know!! I’m LOVIN’ this 🤣
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:09:23 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Jesus is Lord!)
To: JSM_Liberty
Pence says he couldn’t alter the outcome so neither can she
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:09:31 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: Jane Long
But...but....the idiotic Dims NOW want to abolish the Electoral College vote.
They always do after they lose.
NEVER when they win.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:11:51 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
To: Red Badger
Trump won popular vote by 2,285,488
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:11:56 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
( Let’s go Brandon)
To: BigEdLB
Good one! I was wondering if Raskin still had plans.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:12:07 PM PST
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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