{"id":60388,"date":"2016-12-15T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60388"},"modified":"2016-12-15T07:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:24:32","slug":"celebrities-urge-electors-not-to-vote-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60388","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities urge electors not to vote for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JENNIFER CALFAS<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0z0iuWh3sek#action=share<\/p>\n<p>A group of celebrities created a video to urge Electoral College members to cast their votes for someone other than President-elect <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the position, the authority, and the opportunity to go down in the books as an American hero who changed the course of history,\u201d several celebrities say in turn.<\/p>\n<p>Unite for America, a group formed to try to prevent Trump from becoming president, created the video published Wednesday, which features actors Martin Sheen, Debra Messing and Bob Odenkrik, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The video doesn&#8217;t give a name of a preferred alternate candidate, but insists that they aren&#8217;t calling on electors to go for <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The stars argue that Trump is unfit and not competent for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Unite for America is just one of several groups formed with the long-shot goal of killing an imminent Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The 538 electors will convene around the country on Monday to vote for the next president. On Election Day, Trump surpassed the necessary 270 votes to win with a total of 306.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-seven GOP electors would have to switch their votes to someone other than Trump to delay making his election official, a highly unlikely feat.<\/p>\n<p>Despite media coverage, chatter and protests from a handful of electors, only one GOP elector has publicly vowed not to vote for Trump. Virtually every other Republican elector<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/310287-electoral-college-voters-under-intense-pressure\">The Hill has contacted<\/a> has said they will vote enthusiastically for the president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/310502-celebrities-urge-presidential-electors-not-to-vote-for-trump\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/310502-celebrities-urge-presidential-electors-not-to-vote-for-trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}