Only 2 Trump electors defect, compared to 5 Clinton electors Not too many intelligent, well-informed people actually thought the Left’s attempt to get 37 of Donald Trump’s 306 presidential electors to vote for somebody other than Trump on Dec. 19 would work. It didn’t. “In the end, seven electors voted for a person other than the candidate who won their states—the largest number of electoral college desertions in a presidential contest in U.S. history, eclipsing a record set in 1808,” according to the Los Angeles Times.