Two Democratic members of the Electoral College have launched a campaign to keep President-elect Donald Trump from entering the White House, according to a new report.Washington's Bret Chiafolo and Colorado's Michael Baca hope at least 37 of their GOP colleagues will abandon Trump and force the House into picking the next president instead, Politico said Monday.
Politico said the pair's so-called "Moral Electors" movement has already found one backer in Washington's Robert Satiacum.
"This is a longshot," Chiafolo told Politico in a phone interview Monday. "It's a hail Mary. However, I do see situations where - when we've already had two or three [Republican] electors state publicly they didn't want to vote for Trump. How many of them have real issue with Donald Trump in private?"
Politico said neither Baca nor Chiafolo is seeking the election of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Both vowed they would encourage GOP electors to write-in either Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) or 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney instead.
The House would choose from among the top-three vote getters should enough electors reject Trump's claim to the White House.
Politico noted the 538 members of the Electoral College are scheduled to gather in their various state capitals and formally vote for president Dec. 19.
Baca and Chiafolo are seeking 37 other electors to halt Trump due to the Republican's results in the Electoral College vote last week.
Trump claimed 290 electoral votes to Clinton's 228, and currently leads in Michigan, which awards another 16.
Michigan would boost Trump's total to 306 electoral votes if all electors there go his way, well past the 270 threshold required for the presidency.
Politico added it could find only one GOP elector on record considering a break with Trump, his party's nominee.
Texas's Art Sisneros, a Libertarian activist, on Monday said he remains "undecided" but state party leaders and fellow GOP electors are pressuring him to go with Trump.
Twenty-nine states have laws mandating their electors support the victor of their state's popular vote, though Politico acknowledged none has ever been challenged or enforced.
Clinton's loss to Trump remains controversial as the former secretary of State won the national popular vote by less than 1 point over him.
I told all of you about this enigma in an earlier post. For the most part, all I got was a whinning, silly pile of cheap gossip.
tater, go peel a potatoe.
#1: Justified To: buckeroo (#0)
Justified posted on 2016-11-14 20:51:03 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hondo68 To: buckeroo, tater, gatlin, Juan ISIS McCain, Mittens, iblewafartsky, President Kasich, *2016 The Likely Suspects* (#0)
The electoral college hasn't even voted yet!
Hondo68 posted on 2016-11-14 21:00:17 Reply Private Reply
#3: buckeroo To: hondo68 (#2)
buckeroo posted on 2016-11-14 21:02:48 Reply Private Reply
#4: sneakypete To: buckeroo (#0)
If what they seek is to finally get the lone-overdue revolution to begin in America,that's the way to do it. Convince the working class whites and conservatives of all backgrounds that their votes no longer matter and the professional criminal classes will just pick who they want,and there will be people showing up in the streets carrying rifles and heading to the local political headquarters.
Which may even be a good thing in the long run.
sneakypete posted on 2016-11-14 21:17:38 Reply Private Reply
#5: Gatlin To: hondo68 (#2)
Gatlin posted on 2016-11-14 22:16:44 Reply Private Reply
#6: redleghunter To: buckeroo (#0)
redleghunter posted on 2016-11-14 22:19:51 Reply Private Reply
#7: rlk To: buckeroo (#0)
rlk posted on 2016-11-14 23:09:04 Reply Private Reply
#8: Hank Rearden To: buckeroo (#0)
OK.
Hank Rearden posted on 2016-11-14 23:43:31 Reply Private Reply
#9: etypejag To: buckeroo (#0)
the hole won no majority over trump.
any recount would show the fake double votes, illegals and dead votes and e v e r y single one of those probably 5% per state totals would decimate the slots purported "won states" to where this would end up showing the true landslide against regressivism that actually occurred nov 8.
but
not needed
you lost
we won
shut up
elections have consequences
or best yet ---
at this point what difference does it make?
chuckles...
etypejag posted on 2016-11-15 02:08:55 Reply Private Reply
#10: TrappedInMd To: buckeroo (#0)
HAHA! They are a sad bunch!
TrappedInMd posted on 2016-11-15 07:49:31 Reply Private Reply
#11: tomder55 To: buckeroo (#0)
Now that she lost ,they hate the electoral system. If they succeed in intimidating enough Trump electors to go faithless then I believe that Congress will not certify the vote. There will be a Constitutional crisis that the 8 member SCOTUS could not solve.
tomder55 posted on 2016-11-24 15:01:13 Reply Private Reply