Despite a heavy campaign to sway—even harass—Republican electors in, the only really unpredictable about Monday’s Electoral College vote was that more Democratic electors defected from Hillary Clinton than from Donald Trump. Per Politico, Clinton advisers were not happy with even more votes of no confidence for a historically bad Democratic presidential campaign:
After it was clear the effort had failed, former Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon had a tough assessment of the organizers – calling their effort a “coup” attempt. “These Democratic electors’ hearts were in the right place in trying to oppose Donald Trump all the way until the end, but their plan for mounting some kind of coup through the electoral college was never serious,” he said. “Their idea seems to have amounted to wanting Hillary Clinton to publicly surrender her electors in the hope that doing so would entice defections from 37 theoretical Republicans who were never identified — presumably because they never existed. This was just a recipe for subtracting more from Hillary Clinton’s electoral vote count than Donald Trump’s, and sure enough that is exactly what happened.”
