Electoral College poised to make Trump win official – but not without drama

The Electoral College votes for president today.

The Dems are hoping that 36 Republicans will jump sides and vote for Clinton. 

That’s never going to happen. 

The Electoral College is poised Monday to select Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, despite efforts to disrupt the 227-year-old process that so far appear to have resulted in just one openly rogue voter. Still, Democrats and Republicans on Sunday spoke with some uncertainty about the anticipated outcome.

“We expect everything to fall in line,” Reince Priebus, White House chief of staff in the incoming Trump administration, told “Fox News Sunday.”

Electors will convene in state capitals across the country Monday to make the results of the Nov. 8 election official.

In most presidential election years, the Electoral College vote would essentially be a formality. But electors have been facing pressure for weeks from anti-Trump forces to upend the November results; protests also are expected at state capitals on Monday.

While the efforts stand little chance of succeeding, those factions have been fueled by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s win in the popular vote. She won roughly 2.6 million more ballots than Trump but lost the Electoral College vote.

Trump got more Electoral College votes by winning many of the smaller, less-populated states in the Midwest and South, along with the big coastal state of Florida and traditionally Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Trump and Clinton also split the six most populous states.

Trump needs 270 electoral votes Monday. And the state victories put him in line to get 306 of the 538 — with each state getting one vote for each House and Senate member. The three remaining votes go to the District of Columbia.

Via Fox Politics

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