The election college voted, and Donald J. Trump is officially the winner of the 2016 election. The loss of Hillary Clinton with Trump was probably one of the greatest political nervousness in the latest memory. However, efforts to block Trump through this institution gave another opportunity to desperate liberals to get attached to the view that they can block Trump before the presidency.
While Clinton’s campaign, Shell shocked with its loss, she was still about this pressure on the blockage of Trump in the election college, after yesterday’s vote – Former spokesman Brian Fallon almost called it a shoddy attempt at the coup, which has a zero chance of success, while there was an Obama adviser David Axelrod said that such a rebellion from this institution would be destructive to the country. Fallon also added that this push can only lead to a larger number of decisive Clinton voters (via via Politico):
Clinton’s most crucial advisers, including the communication advisor to the Jennifer Palmieri campaign, did not answer repetitive requests for comment before Monday’s vote. After it was clear that the effort failed, the former spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, Brian Fallon, had a hard assessment of the organizers – calling their effort the “coup.” ”
“The hearts of these democratic voters were in the right place, trying to oppose Donald Trump until the end, but their plan to take some coup by the College of Electoral was never serious,” he said. “It seems that their idea was that Hillary Clinton publicly gave up their voters in the hope that it would encourage 37 theoretical Republicans who have never been identified – presumably because they never existed. It was just a recipe for subtracting more than the number of election votes Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, and it certainly just happened. “
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Proponents of anti -peak effort were terrified on Sunday platforms in “Meet The Press” NBC, when the platform said that the democrats who voted for someone other than Clinton would do nothing to influence the result of the election.
“The question is: are there 37 Republicans?” He said, in response to the question about the voting strategy for the alternative GOP candidate. “Democrats are not really doing.”
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Democrats were clearly divided in this matter heading until Monday. David Axelrod, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, argued against the efforts of voting against Clinton or Trump.
“Look, Alexander Hamilton developed the College of Electors and Founding Fathers as a buffer against democracy, which is a protection against someone who was not suitable for the office. But he was never used in the history of our Republic, “Axelrod said on Monday morning on the” new day “CNN. “That it would happen now, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton won a popular voice and everything that swirls with Russia and so on, I think it would separate the country in a really destructive way, and would designate this crazy cycle in which voting would be in every election They would be doubtful at the election college. “
So the whole program ended, although even after November 8 the 2016 cycle seemed endless. The candidate of the Green Party, Jill Stein, made a senseless effort at Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan about allegations that voters’ fraud or mass hacking was aimed at tilting the election in favor of Donald Trump. Finally Trump ended with more votes In Wisconsin, Michigan, he ended his court order (Trump still won), and Pennsylvania did not carry it out. Stein did not hit the date initiated by voters, so Stein’s lawyers had to formally undermine the results in the entire state in court. The problem is that in order to repetition, Team Stein would have to demonstrate evidence of hacking or mass fraud. There was no such claims. They did not exist. It was also debatable because everyone said that Trump would still win all three states, even if everyone agreed to conduct a conversion. What’s more, the conversion would not discover any evidence of hacking. However, the green party has collected a lot of money. Then Hamilton’s electrician came.
This team of voters wanted to block Trump, winning a sufficient number of republican electors for the defect. It seemed that the group’s consensus on the alternative ended with the governor of Ohio John Kasich, who loudly discouraged this effort. They submitted 527 articles in Colorado to collect money for legal funds, because, as we noticed earlier, 29 states have electoral provisions that bind voting at the election college to the winner of the state. Two voters from Colorado filed a lawsuit for release of voters; Two judges, one of them nominated by former President Bill Clinton, shot him down. Despite this, there was hope that 37 voters would be defective; Even a lawyer and a compact presidential candidate in 2016 Lawrence Lessig said that 20 are ready to jump. Ultimately, more electors from Clinton, which Trump. Trump ended with 304 electoral votes (it was expected to get 306) to 227 Clinton (it was expected that Nab 232).
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Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as 45th President of the United States on January 20.
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