Distraught liberal activists campaigned for weeks in an effort to get Electoral College participants to oppose Donald Trump in formal voting ceremonies this week. It didn’t work.
In fact, more electors defected from Hillary Clinton than defected from Trump.
Final EC results: Trump 304 Clinton 227 Colin Powell 3 Bernie 1 Ron Paul 1 Kasich 1 Faith Spotted Eagle 1. Trump lost 2; Clinton lost 5.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 20, 2016
The campaign was never going to succeed, but Trump opponents were nonetheless pretty angry when it ultimately failed.
PA Electoral College meeting is adjourned. Woman screams from the gallery: "You just gave us Adolf Hitler" pic.twitter.com/6gB5ukNHl3
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 19, 2016
Some, including liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, are not ready to give up just yet. Moore, one of the only liberals who actually thought Trump could beat Hillary Clinton in the general election, is trying to come up with a plan to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president before he is scheduled to be sworn in on January 20.
He's not president for four and a half weeks. Next idea?
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
Moore was pounding his keyboard at 4 a.m. this morning, tweeting frantically about why the United States was “not a democracy” because Hillary won more votes than Trump but still lost the electoral college (the thing that actually matters).
1. Hello rest of the world! My fellow Americans are asleep right now so I thought we could talk &maybe I can explain what happened yesterday
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
2. Hillary Clinton won the election on Nov 8 by 2.8 million votes over Donald Trump. Which is to say, she lost. U r right, not a democracy.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
He also tweeted about racism.
3. In the 1700s, 2 get the slave states 2 join the USA, those states got "extra votes" letting them count their slaves but not let them vote
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
4. Yes, it is ironic that this racist idea, the Electoral College, 225 years later ended up benefiting the candidate who spewed racism hate.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
Moore then urged whomever might be listening to keep fighting and hoping and searching for a “legal, nonviolent way to stop this madness” in the coming weeks.
5. Trump is not president until 12 noon on Jan 20th. So we'll continue to fight & hope to find a legal, nonviolent way to stop this madness.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
The acclaimed director does not seem to be very optimistic about the future.
6. Ok, people are starting to wake up in the US. I wish I could give u better news. As bad as it seems, it will be worse. We are broken.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
Moore’s previous effort to prevent Trump from becoming president was also a failure. He made a movie called “TrumpLand” that he hoped would be very popular and alter the outcome of the election. (It wasn’t; it didn’t.)
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