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President Barack Obama criticized the Electoral College, calling it an outdated “vision” from America’s Founding Fathers.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.
The founder of the Electors Trust charity Larry Lessig has claimed that up to 20 GOP affiliated electoral college voters plan on voting against Donald Trump in an attempt to block his confirmation as president.
Tuesday on MSNBC, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who is calling for the Electoral College to vote against President-elect Donald Trump, said Trump’s “outrageous lies” meant Trump was “not qualified to be president.” Himes said, “Well, look, it’s a cumulative thing. I’ve
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” former Hillary for America Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri stated that she has “learned a lot” about the Electoral College “in recent weeks,” including learning that the Electoral College is “supposed to be
NEW YORK – Members of the Electoral College should have the right to consider the alleged impact of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election when they cast their votes on December 19, a Democratic congressman has asserted.
A member of the Electoral College representing California filed a lawsuit on Friday against state officials, seeking to overturn a state law requiring all 55 electors from the state to support the winner of the statewide vote.
Amid the report that suggests Russia influenced last month’s presidential election that led to the a victory by Donald Trump, Esquire columnist Charles Pierce proposed Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” that the Electoral College not cast their vote for the president-elect. “I felt this
A psychology instructor at Orange Coast College told her class that the election of Donald Trump was “an act of terrorism,” which she blamed on the Electoral College. She also said she felt “better” upon reflecting that liberals, like her, “are the majority.”
Harvard law professor and progressive activist Larry Lessig has announced that he is teaming up with a California-based law firm to offer “free and confidential” legal services to any members of the Electoral College who will vote against President-elect Donald Trump in violation of state law.
During a forum on the future of the Electoral College on Tuesday, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) stated that the Electoral College is “rooted in slavery.” Conyers said, “We also must face up to the cold reality that the Electoral College is
During a statement on Tuesday, former Vice President Al Gore argued that the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a popular vote system. Gore said he supported keeping the Electoral College even after the 2000 election, because it
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that besides winning the Electoral College “in a landslide” in the Nov. 8 election: “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
The Left has packed an awful lot of crazy into the days since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. (Should there have been a trigger warning in front of that sentence?)
Michael Dukakis wants America to abandon the Electoral College, because all those rural plebs declaring that their voices matter on Election Day should not have mattered.
Saturday, Demos Action President Heather McGhee accused the Electoral College of being a “racist institution” that is “stopping the will of the people from being expressed.” “For the second time now, a Republican has won the Electoral College without winning
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the Electoral College needs to be abolished, and the different waiting times to vote in different places violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. When
Liberals have lost faith in the Electoral College (EC), with Hillary Clinton having narrowly won the popular vote nationwide.
A petition currently trending on the website of the George Soros-funded MoveOn.org activist group calls for the electoral college to be abolished.
Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral college votes, by 68,236 votes, Wisconsin, with its 10 electoral college votes, by 27,257 votes, and Michigan, with its 16 electoral college votes, by 13,107 votes.
Pop star Lady Gaga tweeted a petition Thursday calling on Electoral College voters in each state to cast their individual vote for Hillary Clinton.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was elected America’s 45th president Tuesday, an astonishing victory for a celebrity businessman and political novice who capitalized on voters’ economic anxieties, took advantage of racial tensions and overcame a string of sexual assault allegations
RALEIGH, North Carolina — Veteran pollster Frank Luntz told Breitbart News on Monday before a Donald Trump rally at the J.S. Norton arena that he thinks the election will come down to four states: Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
With the new letter by Director James Comey released Sunday stating the FBI has reviewed Anthony Weiner’s laptop and concluded it will still not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her private email server, the value of the Mexican peso jumped for joy.
With less than three days left before the 2016 election is over — barring recounts — Republican nominee Donald Trump is in a better position to win than any GOP candidate since 2004.
