Polly Baca, a former state senator from Colorado, has been involved in every presidential race since 1960. As one of nine members of the Electoral College from Colorado who is required by state law to vote for Hillary Clinton, she is involved in this one, too. But the longtime Democratic activist is considering writing in the name of a Republican instead.
Doing so, she says, might be the only way to keep Donald Trump from the White House.
?He is not the president-elect,? Baca told The Colorado Independent Monday. ?He is the not president-elect until the Electoral College meets. And as an elector I?m hopeful that we can come up with an alternative.?
Over the weekend, Baca hosted four of the nine national electors from Colorado at her home in Denver. There they discussed how they might reach out to other national electors across the country as part of a plan to keep Trump from the Oval Office.
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