Electoral College vote moves Trump another step toward officially becoming president

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Electoral College vote moves Trump another step toward officially becoming president
President-elect Trump carried all seven key battleground states enroute to a 312 to 226 Electoral College victory over Vice President Kamala Harris
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
Published December 17, 2024 1:33pm EST

CONCORD, N.H. – Presidential electors are gathering at state capitals across the country on Tuesday to cast their electoral votes in the 2024 election, a key step in formalizing President-elect Trump’s White House victory last month over Vice President Kamala Harris.

At the New Hampshire Statehouse, the state’s four electors cast ballots on behalf of Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, in a largely ceremonial vote.

Harris edged Trump by roughly three percentage points to carry New Hampshire, the only swing state in New England.

"This is the formal vote for President and Vice President of the United States," New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan, who presided over the procedure, said. "Every state in the country right now is going through this process."

New Hampshire was one of four states, along with Indiana, Tennessee and Vermont, to lead off Tuesday's Electoral College voting.

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Kathy Hochul demands abolition of Electoral College
By
Emily Hallas
December 17, 2024 7:07 pm
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Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) argued that the popular vote should “prevail” during remarks calling for an end to the Electoral College on Tuesday.

As the Democratic governor presided over the Empire State’s ceremonial Electoral College vote in Albany, she called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to eliminate the election system and relegate it “to the history books.”

Hochul’s words came as she joined political leaders in the state capitol to cast New York’s 28 Electoral College votes for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“We, the people, forming a more perfect union, and I strongly believe that the people of New York state and the United States of America should and must have their votes count equally and that the popular vote should prevail,” Hochul said during a speech that argued the Electoral College gives less populated states “outsized influence” in selecting the president.

To settle fears that candidates who won the presidential election based solely on winning the popular vote might view the victory as a mandate for dictatorship, the founders established the Electoral College in 1787. To select the president, each state is allocated a certain number of electoral votes based on its population.

As opposed to winning the election solely based on the baseline number of people who vote for candidates, politicians are required to clinch 270 electoral votes in order to win the presidential election.

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