Electoral College affirms: Biden is the president-elect.
Presidential Elector William Smith, 94, of Hartford, casts his ballot for Joe Biden in the Connecticut Senate.
Connecticut cast its seven Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, normally a perfunctory postscript to a presidential election. The state’s GOP chairman was ready to move on, even if President Donald J. Trump was not.
“This is the process that has played out,” said J.R. Romano, chair of the state Republican Party. Romano accepted the result but refused to say if Trump should, too. “All that matters procedurally is that the Electoral College voted today. That’s all that really matters.”
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December 14, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the Electoral College meeting (all times local):
Electors gathered in 50 states and the District of Columbia on Monday to formally affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency.
FINAL TALLY OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES:
Democrat Joe Biden: 306
7:55 p.m.
President-elect Joe Biden says local election officials and workers endured threats of violence and verbal abuse while ensuring that democracy prevailed in the November election.
In a speech Monday after the Electoral College affirmed his victory, Biden said that the threats were “simply unconscionable” but that the workers showed courage and commitment to free and fair elections in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Originally published on December 14, 2020 10:11 pm
With the Electoral College votes now complete, a new wave of Senate Republicans are acknowledging what s been clear for weeks: Joe Biden is the president-elect.
In the days after the Nov. 3 election, only a handful of GOP senators mostly moderates recognized the win for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Since then, many of the chamber s Republicans have deferred to President Trump s legal challenges instead.
That began to change on Monday. In some cases, such as that of Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, they are admitting it somewhat reluctantly. It doesn t matter what Chuck Grassley thinks, the Constitution has answered that question for you, Grassley said moments after California s electoral votes affirmed Biden s win. That s all I can say on it.
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Democratic Electors cast ballots in Arizona for first time since 1996
Arizona s election electors cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Monday. Who are Arizona s electors?
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PHOENIX â Historically, casting Arizonaâs electoral votes has been a routine part of the process to complete the general election. However, thereâs nothing routine about 2020 Election and Mondayâs vote had plenty of drama, passion, and conflict.
Arizonaâs 11 electors convened after multiple legal challenges, protests, and calls for legislative interference. They did their constitutional duty framed by deep mistrust between those who stand by and those who discredit the state s election process. Tensions between the groups led to the vote taking place in a secret location away from its traditional home at the State Capitol. The 11 electors sat in a large room, masked, and distanced as they voted fo