What a day! It looks very much as though the coup has FAILED.
Here
is the latest vote tally as of 4:10pm ET:
- 265 electoral votes had been cast for Trump,
- 160 electoral votes had been cast for Hillary Clinton.
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Electors Mutiny Against Hillary: Three Cast Votes For Colin Powell,
One For "Faith Spotted Eagle"
19
December, 2016
Adding
insult to injury, not to mention humiliating loss, following the
first "faithless elector" to emerge earlier in the day in
Minnesota, and who voted for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary
Clinton, a drama broke out in Washington State, where Stop Trump
protesters gathered at the Statehouse in Olympia before the noon
vote.
That
wasn't the drama: what was, however, is that according to AP, after
the vote, "Democrat Hillary Clinton received eight votes, former
Secretary of State Colin Powell got three, and Faith Spotted Eagle,
an elder in the Yankton Dakota tribe, got one. Clinton won the
state's popular vote."
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details from AP:
Four
members of the Electoral College in Washington state cast their votes
for a candidate other than Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the
state's popular vote.
It's
the first time in four decades the state's electors have broken from
the popular vote for president. Washington's 12 electors met Monday
afternoon in the state Capitol to complete the constitutional
formality. Clinton got eight votes while other candidates got the
remaining four.
Elector
Bret Chiafalo, who earlier in the day said he planned to vote for
Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich, said that he ultimately changed his
vote to former Secretary of State Colin Powell after conversations
with other Washington electors. The exact breakdown of the other four
votes wasn't immediately known, although at least one vote was cast
for "Faith Spotted Eagle."
In
last month's election, Republican Donald Trump won 306 electoral
votes to Clinton's 232, though Clinton's tally will now be lower.
The
four were only the most recent "faithless electors" to
emerge by voting against Hillary: earlier in the day, the same thing
happened with one elector in Maine, one in Minnesota and one in
Colorado. Those votes were changed and registered for Clinton.
So the electoral coup failed.
ReplyDeleteLittle is certain going forward, but I guess that we can now safely assume that it's "game over" for Ms. Clinton.
She is now free to quietly fade into obscurity, never to be seen or heard from again.