Second Republican elector refuses to vote for Trump
Member of the Electoral College of Texas Chris Suprun, representing the Republican Party, said he would not vote for Donald Trump at a meeting of the US electoral college 19 December, reports with the BBC.
“I am here to elect a president, not a king,” he explained his decision.
In a column for the New York Times, Suprun, a physician from Dallas, said that he would not be able to fulfill the function entrusted to him by American voters and vote for Trump because he was convinced “day after day” that the former tycoon is unfit to serve. take the presidency.
“They told me that if we elect Donald Trump, he will change, he will become more like the president. He did not do this,” the elector writes.
“I know there will be a backlash from the public, but this has become the norm over the course of this campaign. People are unhappy. They are angry. But I’m also angry,” Suprun wrote.
Under American law, voters do not vote for the president directly. They vote for members of the electoral college, or electors, who then formally vote for a candidate, first at the state level, and then their votes are counted at the federal level.
Although federal law does not oblige electors to vote the way most state voters vote, in some cases they are obliged to do so by local law.
In addition, even in states where there are no such laws, cases in which electors end up supporting the wrong candidate for whom the people voted are extremely rare.
In the state of Texas, which is Suprun, 38 electors. According to him, he will not vote for Hillary Clinton either, nor will he leave the board.
Previously, another Texas elector, Art Cisneros, left the board because he did not want to vote for Trump.
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