LANSING, Michigan–Presidential electors across the United States formally voted for Democrat Joe Biden on Monday despite President Donald Trump’s pressure on several states to declare him the winner, all but ending his long-shot campaign to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election.
Members of the Electoral College in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all swing states in which Trump allies unsuccessfully challenged Biden’s victories in court — cast the states’ electoral votes for the former vice president.
Traditionally a formality, the Electoral College vote – set for Monday by federal law – assumed outsized significance because of Trump’s u…
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