Houston, TX – A Republican member of the Electoral College from Texas says he’s resigning so he won’t cast one of the state’s 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump.
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Art Sisneros previously told The Associated Press that he was wavering on supporting Trump because the Republican “is not biblically qualified for office.”
In a lengthy weekend blog post, Sisneros updated that, saying “the best option I see at this time is to resign my position as an elector.”
Texas doesn’t require its presidential electors to vote in accordance with the state’s presidential election results. Trump won Texas by around 9 percentage points and captured 290 overall electoral votes to Hillary Clinton’s 232.
Texas electors meet in Austin next month to vote for president. By state law, they can vote then on a replacement for Sisneros.
Welcome to United Stated of North Korea.
Disgusting how left honor their commitment to our democracy as long as it fits their agenda.
This Elector is a republican, not a “leftist”. The Electoral College was put into the Constitution in 1789 as a check and balance to the possibility of mob rule, and the popular vote going for a dictator, king, foreign leader or completely unprepared president. This elector has followed his conscience, as others have done before him, and will not cast his vote for a totally unprepared demagogue-fascist.
He is just another snowflake.
congratulations to the elector