ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTERS PRESSED TO UNDERMINE TRUMP

ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTERS PRESSED TO UNDERMINE TRUMP

December 18, 2016

(Washington Times) — State officials braced for an anything-can-happen vote Monday of the Electoral College as Democratic and progressive operatives took their historic campaign to upend President-elect Donald Trump down to the wire.

Hollywood stars have issued personal pleas urging Republican electors to defect.  The Hamilton Electors movement called Sunday for Republicans to back Ohio Gov. John Kasich.  Protesters finalized plans to converge Monday for rallies at all 50 statehouses.

“I think it’s going to be a real scene down here on Monday,” said Lynn Bartels, a spokeswoman for the Colorado secretary of state.

And Colorado isn’t even a Trump state.  The real action lies in the 30 states that backed Mr. Trump, where Republican electors are under intense pressure to defy the popular vote as part of a long-shot bid to deny him the presidency.

Organizers have described the revolt as “grass roots” and “multipartisan,” but Reince Priebus, incoming Trump White House chief of staff, said the campaign is being orchestrated by Democrats and MoveOn.org, founded by Democratic megafunder George Soros.

“It’s about MoveOn.org.  It’s about Democrats that can’t accept the outcome of the election.  It’s about delegitimizing the American system,”  Mr. Priebus told “Fox News Sunday.”  “It’s not going to work.”

Mr. Priebus, the outgoing Republican National Committee chairman, said the whip count shows just one faithless Republican elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, who has announced he plans to vote against Mr. Trump.

“Other than that, we’re very confident that everything is going to be very smooth tomorrow and this harassment from groups like MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party should stop,”  Mr. Priebus said.  “And it’s what the American people demand.” …