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LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts)
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 04:26 PM Feb 2018

I did not elect Donald Trump. Most of you did not have anything to do with it either.

Our states electors elected Mr. Trump. They could have elected Joe Biden, Mrs Clinton, Mr. Sanders or even your plumber of garbage man. They did not do that. They elected Mr. Trump.

Article II

Section 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.


https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/provisions.html

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