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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 vote for the next president. Most states have laws binding their electors to the winner of the popular vote in their state. Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election with 306 Electoral College votes, while President Donald Trump finished with 232. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency.
TALLY OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, AS OF 7:10 P.M. EST
Democrat Joe Biden: 306
7:45 p.m.
President-elect Joe Biden says his Electoral College victory of the same magnitude as President Donald Trump’s in 2016 is a signal that the current president should finally accept his own defeat in this year’s election.
LaChapelle nods to women with Electoral College vote
Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle speaks during her State of the City address, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 at the Municipal Building.
NICOLE LaCHAPELLE
Published: 12/14/2020 8:42:32 PM
When Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle was casting her ballot for President-elect Joe Biden Monday afternoon along with 10 other Massachusetts electors, she was wearing a piece of jewelry that belonged to three generations of women in her family as a reminder to herself how far women in this country have come in the past century since gaining the right to vote.
“I wanted to stand on the shoulders of women in my family, but also all of the hundreds of thousands of women over the last 100 years that insisted that women should have the vote, in various forms,” she added. “And also, not just the vote but having equity in our political process.”
On Parler, People Turn on Mitch McConnell for Recognizing Biden as President
On 12/15/20 at 2:30 PM EST
Users of Parler, the social network preferred by many conservatives, are not too happy with one of their own: Mitch McConnell. During a 10-minute speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, the Senate majority leader recognized Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time. Not only that, the right-wing stalwart from Kentucky even congratulated the former vice president, who also spent many years as his political enemy in the Senate.
Senator Mitch McConnell speaking to the media on December 8 in Washington, D.C.
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