Cenk Uygur
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Faithless Electors Come Up Short Against Trump
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December 20, 2016
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8:12Now PlayingThere was a movement to get members of the electoral college to be "faithless electors" against Donald Trump. It failed. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Republican Donald Trump prevailed in U.S. Electoral College voting on Monday to officially win election as the next president, easily dashing long-shot hopes by a small movement of detractors to block him from gaining the White House.
Trump garnered more than the 270 electoral votes required to win, even as at least half a dozen U.S. electors broke with tradition to vote against their own state’s directives, the largest number of “faithless electors” seen in more than a century.
A core of Democratic activists around the country had hoped to convince Republicans to cross lines and vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who won the nationwide popular vote on Nov. 8.
In the end, however, more Democrats than Republicans split with their party. Four Democratic electors voted for someone other than Clinton, while two Republicans turned their backs on Trump."*
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