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No for refusing to pledge his electoral vote to the nominee that the voters choose.
Be careful what you wish for here. Do you want a bunch of Never Trumpers refusing to give their electoral votes to Trump after the American voters fought so hard to win a victory in a given state?
If any "Never Trump" Republican electors decided to do this the RIGGED election conspiracy folks on the Alt-Right would have a nuclear meltdown....but its okay if its a Dem, right?
This is the reason I never liked this electoral college. I can understand why some people on this thread are upset.
However IMHO in this particular case, if this elector is a former Bernie Sanders supporter I can understand his reasoning given the way the Democratic Party leadership was unfairly turned against Bernie by the Clinton machine.
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This is the reason I never liked this electoral college. I can understand why some people on this thread are upset.
However IMHO in this particular case, if this elector is a former Bernie Sanders supporter I can understand his reasoning given the way the Democratic Party leadership was unfairly turned against Bernie by the Clinton machine.
So his logic is " i got cheated, so I will cheat" ??
Mind you, Bernie didnt get cheated, but since when has 2 wrongs made a right ????
Would you be saying the same if it was a red state elector who did the same for Trump?
Yes. If Trump wins a state he should get ALL of the electoral votes that he is entitled to for that state. And God only knows how much I want that man to lose.
However IMHO in this particular case, if this elector is a former Bernie Sanders supporter I can understand his reasoning given the way the Democratic Party leadership was unfairly turned against Bernie by the Clinton machine.
I am a Bernie supporter, but I never understood the "DNC screwed us" argument.
Bernie is not a Democrat, so why would he expect the DNC to treat him fairly when he was running against a Democrat? He only ran as a Democrat because that was the only way he could win the presidency.
Would anyone expect an independent candidate to be treated fairly by the RNC if he/she was running in the Republican primary against Marco Rubio? I wouldn't.
This is the reason I never liked this electoral college. I can understand why some people on this thread are upset.
However IMHO in this particular case, if this elector is a former Bernie Sanders supporter I can understand his reasoning given the way the Democratic Party leadership was unfairly turned against Bernie by the Clinton machine.
Bernie was NEVER going to win the nomination....even Bernie knew that to be true.
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