Electoral College Voters Officially Confirm Donald Trump’s Victory: Trump Also Won the Popular Vote; Trump Formally Wins Electoral College — With Jan. 6 Expected to be Mere Formality

Electoral College voters officially confirm Donald Trump’s victory:

Trump also won the popular vote.

President-elect Donald Trump officially won the Electoral College vote on Tuesday after presidential electors cast their votes.

Trump won 312 electoral votes while Vice President Kamala Harris took only 226. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

On Monday, a group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate proposed a bill to end the Electoral College, but the effort is a long shot given Democrats’ lack of power and the high bar for changing the Constitution.

“In an election, the person who gets the most votes should win. It’s that simple,” said Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii. “No one’s vote should count for more based on where they live. The Electoral College is outdated and it’s undemocratic. It’s time to end it.”

A constitutional amendment needs approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress or approval by three-fourths of state legislatures.

Democrats have long decried the Electoral College because Republicans have been able to win the presidency while losing the popular vote. That was not the case with Trump, who also won the popular vote with 77.2 million votes compared to Harris’ 75 million votes. —>READ MORE HERE

Trump formally wins Electoral College — with Jan. 6 expected to be mere formality

President-elect Donald Trump formally won the Electoral College Tuesday as Republican electors affirmed his victory in the Nov. 5 election — with the final certification by Congress on Jan. 6 expected to be a mere formality.

Trump, 78, topped the required 270 electoral votes before 4 p.m. as electors convened in statehouses across the country, with Texas sealing his victory.

Democratic Sens. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Peter Welch of Vermont protested Monday by introducing a proposed constitutional amendment to do away with the Electoral College, arguing it unfairly benefits more conservative states with smaller populations.

“No one’s vote should count for more based on where they live. The Electoral College is outdated and it’s undemocratic. It’s time to end it,” Schatz said.

The proposed amendment has no chance of passing either chamber of Congress — where two-thirds of members would have to consent — or the requisite number of states — three-fourths — to take effect.

Trump won the popular vote in the Nov. 5 election, meaning such a constitutional amendment would not have changed the outcome.

The president-elect has argued that the Electoral College valuably requires candidates to compete in geographically distinct regions, and that Republicans might fare better in the popular vote if it were abolished because they would focus more on major urban areas.

Although it’s possible in some states for faithless electors to register a recorded dissent from one of the major-party candidates, none had done as of mid-afternoon Tuesday — with defeated Vice President Kamala Harris also maintaining her own Democratic electors. —>READ MORE HERE

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