Tag: Electoral College

The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.

Hillary Clinton tried to make news this week when she surprised reporters by saying she would not rule out a court challenge to President Donald Trump’s victory over her in the 2016 presidential election, despite the fact that there is simply no chance that a federal court would rule in her favor.

It’s also possible that New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes were swung to Hillary Clinton through illegal voting by nonresidents. If the presidential contest had been closer and had come down to a margin of three or four electoral college votes, then this voter fraud might have had extraordinary consequences.

Following the firing of FBI Director Comey, President Trump said “This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. And the reason they should have won it is the Electoral College is almost impossible for a Republican to win. Very hard. Because you start off at such a disadvantage.”

Hillary Clinton’s ex-campaign chief John Podesta is complaining again about the fact that his failed campaign still won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump kept the threat of voter fraud on the front pages both before and after the 2016 Election. Although ballots have long since been counted, cases of illegal voting and other election law violations continue to surface in the aftermath.

Seven polls conducted over the past week show that more Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance than approve, but the populist base that gave him his victory in November remains extremely loyal.

President Donald Trump on Sunday took to Twitter to call for an investigation into “who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday” – referring to the anti-Trump Tax Day March held Saturday in Washington and at least 60 other locations.

A Democrat New York assemblywoman has a solution for low turnout typically among poor and minority voting blocs: fine them if they fail to cast ballots.

Warnings — or, in some cases, celebrations — that the Democrats are on the verge of a disastrous collapse have been growing more frequent recently.

Since President Donald Trump took office on January 20, a trend has been emerging in which news media outlets have featured articles quoting health care professionals questioning the billionaire’s mental stability in a seeming bid to delegitimize Trump.

The CODEPINK left-wing activist organization is planning “audacious and creative, colorful protests” targeting the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, Ariel Gold, CODEPINK’s campaign director, told Breitbart News in an interview.

During a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College results on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden gaveled down an objection to Georgia’s Electoral College results before ending the exchange over the objection with, “it is over.” After an

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. performs his last constitutional act by presiding over the joint session of Congress Friday in the House chamber for the official acceptance of the Electoral College results from the states.

A bill pre-filed in the Texas Legislature on December 28 would put teeth into circumventing a “faithless elector.” Any attempt by an elector to cast a vote for anyone other than the candidates that received the popular vote in the Lone Star State would be void. Moreover, casting the void vote would immediately create a vacancy in the elector’s position.

An Ohio sheriff who was an elector in Ohio’s Electoral College is burning all the anti-Trump letters he received leading up to the Electoral College vote held Monday.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly used his introductory “Talking Points Memo” segment to offers his thoughts on the motivations behind the movement to abolish the Electoral College. According to O’Reilly, much of what is

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized the coverage of the movement to have Republican electors vote against President-Elect Donald Trump as indicative of a desire to diminish and take legitimacy away from

The 55 members of the Electoral College from California cast their votes unanimously for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — and passed a resolution calling for an investigation into Russian hacking and interference in the election.

Seven electors defected from Clinton, while two defected from Trump. There are 538 electors and a majority of 270 were required to elect the next president. At final count, Trump had 304 votes and Clinton had 228, Colin Powell received 3, while Ron Paul and Faith the spotted eagle each won one vote.

On Monday’s episode of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg said she’s more informed and capable of being the President of the United States than current President-elect Donald Trump.

The Electoral College vote is usually a formality, a minor news story scarcely noticed by anyone who isn’t directly involved in the process. Yet in their quest to sabotage the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s administration before he even takes office, Democrats managed to turn the 2016 Electoral College vote into another humiliating defeat for their own leader, Hillary Clinton.

The now infamous Texas “Faithless Elector” Christopher Suprun revealed he will cast his Electoral College Ballot on Monday for Ohio Governor John Kasich.

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore is mounting a last-ditch effort to persuade Republican Electoral College voters to vote for anybody but President-elect Donald Trump.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Demonstrators are gathering outside the Texas Capitol in hopes of persuading more than three dozen Republican electors to cast their ballot for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” columnist Mike Barnicle and Bloomberg Politics Managing Editor Mark Halperin reacted to reported harassment of Republican electors by arguing that if Trump supporters were doing the same to Democratic electors, the media would

Kate McKinnon brought her Hillary Clinton character back to “Saturday Night Live” this week. In the skit, “Clinton,” through holding up cue cards, begged an elector as a last ditch effort to “vote for literally anyone else” besides President-elect Donald Trump. After confusing

President Barack Obama criticized the Electoral College, calling it an outdated “vision” from America’s Founding Fathers.

Just days before the Electoral College is slated to hold its vote, Harvard law professor and progressive activist Larry Lessig conceded that as of today, only a “handful” of electors will likely ultimately vote against Donald Trump unless the number of electors who pledge to do so climbs above 40.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Political Commentator Angela Rye stated that “Donald Trump’s election, in my mind, is far from legitimate.” Rye said, “Donald Trump’s election, in my mind, is far from legitimate, at this point. I have

Denver, Colorado District Judge Elizabeth Starrs has ruled against the state’s “faithless” electors who sought to defy the voters’ will by using Electoral Votes for Hillary Clinton to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from ascending to the White House.

Police are investigating threats against the Orange Coast College instructor who was videotaped calling President-elect Donald Trump’s victory an “act of terrorism”.

“The elite of this country has nothing but contempt and no respect for the American people who built this country,” political pollster and analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday.

Chris Suprun, the Republican “faithless elector” from Texas who says he will not vote for Donald Trump when that state’s electors gather in Austin on Monday, “was apparently not a first responder on September 11, 2001, as he has stated for years and has a questionable career history, according to an investigation by WFAA.”

Rich Lowry writes that claims of “Russian hacking” were well litigated before the election, and voters considered and rejected them.