Electoral College: Trump Tops 270; More Democrats Defect Than Republicans

Debra Heine | 4:50 PM on December 19, 2016

*President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Willie J. Allen Jr.)*

It’s official. The bombastic billionaire will become America’s 45th president in 31 days.

Congratulations to @RealDonaldTrump; officially elected President of the United States today by the Electoral College!

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) December 19, 2016

We did it! Thank you to all of my great supporters, we just officially won the election (despite all of the distorted and inaccurate media).

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2016

Donald J. Trump sailed to victory in the Electoral College Monday after a full day of protests outside of statehouses across the country. Texas put Trump over the 270-vote threshold, his only defectors being the faithless fraud Chris Suprun and another Texan who voted for John Kasich and Ron Paul respectively.

This Hillary-ous Montage Shows Whom the Media Wants to Blame for Clinton’s Loss

Deliciously ironic, there were over twice as many defections on the Democrat side:

Via The Hill:

Four Democratic electors in Washington state cast votes for candidates other than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who carried the state.

Democratic electors in Maine, Minnesota and Colorado have separately tried to cast votes for different candidates, but saw their ballots barred. Clinton carried all three states.

Ahead of the Electoral College vote, the focus was on whether any voters would defect from casting ballots for Republican Donald Trump.

Here is how it shook out:

https://twitter.com/RightWingAngel/status/810996704530997249

This after GOP electors were deluged with emails, phone calls, and letters urging them — and in some cases threatening them — to abandon Trump. Not to mention the harebrained celebrity video urging Republican electors to vote for anyone but Trump. I sense we may have finally come to the end of an era in which self-important celebs think the American people give a hoot about what they have to say about politics.

Democrats reacted to their states’ votes about as well as could be expected:

An epic snowflake meltdown in Wisconsin with chants of “shame! shame!”