Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2020 19:36:49 GMT
The Electoral College is voting Monday to cement President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
The ballots are being cast throughout the day by individual electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and they mirror their state’s popular vote.
As of 1:45 p.m. ET, the following states had cast their electoral votes for Biden: Vermont, Illinois, Nevada, Delaware, New Hampshire, Virginia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Georgia (below), Connecticut, Arizona, Minnesota and Wisconsin, bringing the former vice president’s total to 166 electoral votes.
The states that have cast their votes for Trump so far are Indiana, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama. Together, they bring the president’s total to 120 electoral votes.
By day’s end, Biden is projected to receive 306 votes, while Trump is expected to win 232 votes. The former vice president is not expected to formally net the 270-vote majority he needs to cement his win until later in the day, when California records its 55 electoral votes.
The Electoral College vote is typically a formality, occurring more than a month after Election Day votes are cast. But Trump’s unprecedented legal and legislative efforts to overturn the election results this year have imparted a greater significance upon the proceedings.
The president, his campaign and his political allies have filed dozens of lawsuits since Election Day, asking federal and state courts to nullify the election results based on myriad unsubstantiated claims of irregularities.
These efforts repeatedly failed, prompting the president to shift tactics in early December and begin personally pressuring Republican state legislators to intervene in the selection of individual electors. So far, this too has failed.
Yet Trump continues to falsely claim that he, not Biden, is the legitimate winner of the November election and that he was the victim of a massive, coordinated nationwide conspiracy to alter votes in Biden’s favor.
In Pennsylvania (below) and Arizona, two key swing states that Biden won, Trump supporters convened Monday outside their state capitols to protest the electoral college vote.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans fearful of angering their Trump-loving constituents have largely fallen in step behind the president and refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory.
Once electors have formally recorded their votes for president and vice president, the next major event in the Electoral College process is a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, during which both chambers will officially count the electoral votes.
The ballots are being cast throughout the day by individual electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and they mirror their state’s popular vote.
As of 1:45 p.m. ET, the following states had cast their electoral votes for Biden: Vermont, Illinois, Nevada, Delaware, New Hampshire, Virginia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Georgia (below), Connecticut, Arizona, Minnesota and Wisconsin, bringing the former vice president’s total to 166 electoral votes.
The states that have cast their votes for Trump so far are Indiana, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama. Together, they bring the president’s total to 120 electoral votes.
By day’s end, Biden is projected to receive 306 votes, while Trump is expected to win 232 votes. The former vice president is not expected to formally net the 270-vote majority he needs to cement his win until later in the day, when California records its 55 electoral votes.
The Electoral College vote is typically a formality, occurring more than a month after Election Day votes are cast. But Trump’s unprecedented legal and legislative efforts to overturn the election results this year have imparted a greater significance upon the proceedings.
The president, his campaign and his political allies have filed dozens of lawsuits since Election Day, asking federal and state courts to nullify the election results based on myriad unsubstantiated claims of irregularities.
These efforts repeatedly failed, prompting the president to shift tactics in early December and begin personally pressuring Republican state legislators to intervene in the selection of individual electors. So far, this too has failed.
Yet Trump continues to falsely claim that he, not Biden, is the legitimate winner of the November election and that he was the victim of a massive, coordinated nationwide conspiracy to alter votes in Biden’s favor.
In Pennsylvania (below) and Arizona, two key swing states that Biden won, Trump supporters convened Monday outside their state capitols to protest the electoral college vote.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans fearful of angering their Trump-loving constituents have largely fallen in step behind the president and refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory.
Once electors have formally recorded their votes for president and vice president, the next major event in the Electoral College process is a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, during which both chambers will officially count the electoral votes.