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Probably true but faithless elector laws are at the state level. There were 7 validated faithless electors in 2016, the most ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Probably true but faithless elector laws are at the state level. There were 7 validated faithless electors in 2016, the most ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016... https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#Legal_rulings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#Legal_ruling...

srtjstjsj 6y ago
All of them knew their symbolic votes would not change the result, and they didn't all switch in the same direction. The majority of them were pledged to the loser Democrat, and went faithless so that Republicans could be faithless without risking electing a democrat. Only 2 Republicans took the bait, and that only happened because many Republicans hated Trump, whereas Biden is extremely popular among Democrats.
minimaxir 6y ago
2016 had a similar electoral vote margin, so a few faithless electors could not and did not affect the outcome. If today's electoral vote split was 270-268 (as was a possibility if Trump won PA and GA), then things may have been more iffy.