Electoral College votes Joe Biden in as winner of 2020 presidential election
The Electoral College on Monday designated Joe Biden the winner of the Nov. ෴3 election, with California casting its 55 votes to ಌput the former vice president over the 270 threshold needed to ensure the victory.
Biden is expected to amass 306 votes to President Trump’s 232 by the time Hawaii votes at 7 p.m. eastern time.
The pꦰresident-elect will speak an hour later about the Electoral College vote.
“Now it is time to turn the page. To unite. To heal,” Biden will say, according to excerpts released by his transition office.
The final tally from the 50 states and the District of Columbia will be tallied at a joint seꦬssiꦚon of Congress on Jan. 6.
Unlike in 2016, all Republican and Democratic electors cast ballots for their party’s candidate as of California’s vote.
New York’s electors included Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, and her husband former President Bill Clinton, a former Arkansas governor who opened a post-presidency office in Harlem.
The Clintons voted together and shortly after, the former first lady , “I believe we should abolish the Electoral College and select our president by the winner of the popular vote, same as every other office. But while it still exists, I was proud to cast my vote in New York for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
The vote, set by law to occur on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, usually occurs with little fanfare every four years, but Trump’s refusal to concede and challenges of the result by Trump’s legal teams and Republicans allies have put renewed focus on the democratic process.
Local and federal courts have rejected the alleg♊ations of election fraud.
The US Supreme Court last Friday rejected a c♛omplaint filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to toss the results in four swing states Biden won — Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Penns🍎ylvania — that held 62 electoral votes.
Despite the losses, Trump said he was “disappointed” with the high court’s decision and vowed to keep contesting the election to Inauguration Day Jan. 20.
“No, it’s not over. We keep going and we’re going to continue to go forward. We have numerous local cases,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” in an interview that aired Sunday.
Laws in 32 states🎃 and the District of Columbia require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state, and 17 states allow electors to 𝔉vote for their choice.
But the US Supreme Court ruled𒆙 in July that “faithless electors” who don’t cast votes for the candidate they were pledged to support can be punished by the state.
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🧜Other than Mainꦡe and Nebraska, states give all of their votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state.