The entire slate of electors voted for the Republican ticket and unanimously handed Trump and Vance Ohio’s 17 Electoral College votes following the ticket’s 55% to 44% victory over the Democratic presidential ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Jones, who was also invited to Columbus as an elector following Trump’s first victory in Ohio in 2016, said there were fewer people trying to get him to vote against Trump this time around.
“Listen, this is the second time I’ve been here to vote for the president. I was here eight years ago and it was very controversial — I was getting hate mail, threats. Today was great. It sends chills down my spine,” Jones told this outlet shortly after his vote for Trump and Vance. “This is history in the making, my friend, and I’ve been part of it twice. It’s great to be an American. I’m just a local sheriff that’s very outspoken, so it feels good to be a part of this today.”
Jones told this outlet that, in 2016, he and the rest of the Republican electors received at least 5,000 letters attempting to persuade them into voting against Trump, who at the time was a political outsider who had just eked out one of the biggest political upsets in American history.
“I dumped them in a fire pit, caught them all on fire and smoked a cigar and laughed at every one of those letters,” Jones said Tuesday.
This time around, Jones said he got no mail and no threats.
For Scott, a former Kettering councilman and ex-Montgomery County Republican Party chairman, it was his third time casting an electoral vote for Trump. He told this news outlet that it’s “an honor” that has not yet gotten old.
Copies of Ohio′s electoral college votes will be sent to Harris in her capacity as U.S. Senate President, to the archivist of the United States, and to the U.S. District Court ahead of Trump’s and Vance’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.
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