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Michigan State House Speaker Hobbles Fellow Republican
For the second time this month, a Michigan state legislator has been stripped of committee assignments. It’s a strong punishment for any elected lawmaker. Michigan Republican Representative Gary Eisen is serving his first term representing the 81st State House District in the Port Huron area, northeast of metro Detroit.
Eisen is an outspoken conservative and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump. State House Speaker Lee Chatfield says Eisen went over the boundaries of the acceptable during an interview with a local radio host at WPHM in Port Huron early yesterday morning. Host Paul Miller asked Representative Eisen about his view of the situation with the state’s Electoral College meeting at the state capitol to presumably cast all 16 elector votes for Democrat Joe Biden. Eisen replied with a suggestion that there’s, “.going to be violence…” at the Capitol. When pressed by the show host if he could assure listen
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December 14, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the Electoral College meeting (all times local):
Electors are gathering 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 4:26 P.M. EST
Democrat Joe Biden: 240
5:10 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, a retiring Republican from Michigan, says he is disaffiliating from the GOP and becoming an independent for the rest of his term.
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