What s next after Pa. Electoral College vote? Dems say Biden wins, GOP fights for Trump Candy Woodall, USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania Capitol Bureau
Meet one of the electors, Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, after he cast his vote in Harrisburg,
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President Donald J. Trump has lost more than 30 lawsuits and has been calling on his Pennsylvania allies for weeks, looking for their help in overturning the certified election results in the state.
But the efforts of the president and more than half of the state s Republican lawmakers did not supersede state law, the U.S. Constitution or the Pennsylvania Electoral College on Monday.
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Weeks after Election Day, attention turns to the Electoral College and its members who are responsible for formally electing the next president. When we go to vote for president in November, we are not actually voting for president. You are casting your ballot for the electors of that person, said Gayle Alberda, an assistant professor of politics at Fairfield University. It used to be a little clear on our ballots where it said, you re voting for the electors of, you know, Joe Biden or the electors of Donald Trump. Our ballots don t say that anymore, said Matthew Weil, the director of the Elections Project for the Bipartisan Policy Center.The Founding Fathers debated how the country s presidents should be picked either by Congress or by a national popular vote. The Electoral College was created as a compromise between the two. It was supposed to be a time where the electors got together and really made sure and deb
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Pennsylvania casts 20 electoral votes for Joe Biden
By MARK SCOLFORO and MICHAEL RUBINKAMDecember 14, 2020 GMT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania on Monday cast its 20 electoral votes for Democrat Joe Biden, the native son whose win in the state last month cemented his victory over President Donald Trump.
The electors, primarily Democratic elected officials, also chose Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, as vice president. The 20 electors were socially distanced in a cavernous auditorium near the Capitol, meeting there instead of on the floor of the state House because of the pandemic.
Nancy Mills, president of the state’s Electoral College and state Democratic Party chairperson, noted it was Pennsylvania that put Biden, who grew up in Scranton, over the 270-vote threshold needed to claim the White House.