of only two republican electors who defected from donald trump. kyung lah joins me from austin. what happens to chris supren now tomorrow? he's received horrible death threats to both him and his family. does he go back to normal life? >> reporter: it's going to be an uphill climb trying to get back to that normal life. part of the reason is he says he has been a victim of an extraordinary smear campaign which he says has shredded his professional reputation. supren, part of his strong narrative and what he bakded up his argument for being a faithless elector, he was a 9/11 responder to the pentagon. trump supporterses have said according to supren, he wasn't there, that never happened, that he simply made it up. we called the dale city fire department in virginia and that department did confirm, john, that he was a member from 2000 to 2002, but they just can't exactly place his whereabouts on