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Electoral College formally elects Donald Trump as the next President.

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Shortly before 5:30 pm, the Electors of all 50 states formally elected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. 

Despite weeks of last attempts to get the electors to bar the President-elect from 270, and send the election to the Republican dominated House of Representatives - the Electors, in the states that President-elect Trump won, voted in line. The only defectors were from Texas, which peeled away two votes - giving the protests votes to the Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, and former House Representative Ron Paul. The President-elect will walk away with 304 Electoral Votes, the highest number of Electoral Votes scored by a Republican President since 1988. 

The interesting story comes from the Democratic Side - where Clinton is facing rather wide spread defection, in terms of the history of faithless electors. 

In the State of Washington, Mrs. Clinton lost three Electoral Votes to former Republican Secretary of State, Colin Powell - and another to Native American Environmentalist Spotted Eagle, who is protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline.  She is also poised to lose one of Hawaii's four electoral votes to her primary nemesis, Bernie Sanders. She is expected to walk away with 227 Electoral Votes, the lowest score for a Democratic Candidate, again - since the Presidential Election of 1988. 

The process will now go on to the United States House of Representatives, where Congress and Vice President Joe Biden will formally certify Donald Trump as the next President. 

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4 minutes ago, Jake said:

There was no hope, I sadly accepted the outcome on November 9th

Same, I've mentally prepared myself for eight years of this shit because honestly I can't handle any more disappointment. It's better for his time to be cut short than prolonged, so I'm expecting the worst and hoping for the best. I refuse to get my hopes up. dead7

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Just now, Tiny Little Bows said:

Same, I've mentally prepared myself for eight years of this shit because honestly I can't handle any more disappointment. It's better for his time to be cut short than prolonged, so I'm expecting the worst and hoping for the best. dead7

You better hope he's really bad, or that he simply doesn't want to run again - because it is notoriously hard to unseat a sitting President. 

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1 minute ago, Tiny Little Bows said:

Same, I've mentally prepared myself for eight years of this shit because honestly I can't handle any more disappointment. It's better for his time to be cut short than prolonged, so I'm expecting the worst and hoping for the best. I refuse to get my hopes up. dead7

I'm somehow hoping that some badass Democratic candidate comes in and snatches the crown jj4 I know it's going to be near impossible with his rabid, poor excuses of fans though

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Seven faithless electors is still a lot. Stupid thing for one of them to do (this means you, Hawaiian Bernie-or-Buster), but I appreciate the Colin Powell and Spotted Eagle ones as far as using their votes to bring visibility to issues and the political climate in general. Oh well!

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5 minutes ago, Mom said:

You better hope he's really bad, or that he simply doesn't want to run again - because it is notoriously hard to unseat a sitting President. 

I know, people are saying there's no way he'll get re-elected but the refusal to take him seriously is why we were all so shocked the first time around. So many people said that it wasn't going to happen, and I listened to them, and I was crushed because I didn't see it coming at all. This time I'm going to convince myself that he'll pull a 2004 GWB in 2020, so then if he does lose I'll be pleasantly surprised and relieved. fall4

5 minutes ago, Jake said:

I'm somehow hoping that some badass Democratic candidate comes in and snatches the crown jj4 I know it's going to be near impossible with his rabid, poor excuses of fans though

Even though he will if he does fuck shit up, people are definitely stupid enough to re-elect him again so I'm not counting on a Democratic win. um3

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16 minutes ago, Tiny Little Bows said:

I know, people are saying there's no way he'll get re-elected but the refusal to take him seriously is why we were all so shocked the first time around. So many people said that it wasn't going to happen, and I listened to them, and I was crushed because I didn't see it coming at all. This time I'm going to convince myself that he'll pull a 2004 GWB in 2020, so then if he does lose I'll be pleasantly surprised and relieved. fall4

Oh I suspect he'll win in 2020 too. 

That's the thing about him, people called me delusional for saying that he had a shot at winning, but he did - say what you will about him, never underestimate this man, he has a stunning way of coming out on top fall2

 

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3 minutes ago, Mom said:

Oh I suspect he'll win in 2020 too. 

That's the thing about him, people called me delusion for saying that he had a shot at winning, but he did - say what you will about him, never underestimate this man, he has a stunning way of coming out on top fall2

 

I read Michael Moore's prediction the other day, and it's so chilling now. fall3

I also think he could get impeached between then, but I'm not counting on anything.

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