AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Latest on Texas’ presidential electors meeting Monday to cast their ballot in the Electoral College (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
Texas has clinched the Electoral College for Donald Trump.
The ballots of three dozen Texas presidential electors Monday put the billionaire over the 270 electoral votes needed to formally win the White House. All but two of the state’s 38 electors stuck with Trump.
Among the pair of electors to revolt was Dallas paramedic Chris Suprun. He had compared Trump to “a king” earlier this month in announcing that he would cast his ballot for someone else. Suprun said he would vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich instead.
Another elector used his ballot to vote for former Texas congressman Ron Paul.
More than 100 demonstrators outside the Texas Capitol had more electors would also reject Trump. The businessman won Texas by nine percentage points, the state’s smallest margin of victory for a Republican presidential candidate since 1996.