LEVEL WAS HIGH, AND IT WAS
INTENSE.
THE DRAMA INSIDE SENATE CHAMBERS
QUICKLY DISSOLVED.
ELECTOR CHRISTINA HAGAN, UNDER
LEGAL CHALLENGE AS  STARK
COUNTY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR,
STEPPED ASIDE.
ROB SCOTT OF THE OHIO TRUMP
CAMPAIGN STEPPED IN TO TAKE HER
PLACE.
>> DONALD TRUMP HAS GOT TO G
HEY HEY, HO HO.
JOHN: OUTSIDE, AROUND
TWO-HUNDRED FIFTY DEMONSTRATORS
CHANTED FOR ELECTORS TO TAKE IT
TO THE HOUSE.
FOR THEM, THE CAMPAIGN DID NOT
END ON NOVEMBER 8.
>> TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE
BY NEARLY THREE MILLION VOTES
AND COUNTING.
THAT DIFFERENCE IS UNPRECEDENT
IN OUR ELECTION HISTORY.
JOHN: BU, THAT'S NOT HOW WE
ELECT PRESIDENTS.
>> THAT'S CORRECT AND THINGS
MAKE NEED TO CHANGE, AND THE
PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING UP ABOUT
THAT.
JOHN: OHIO'S GOVERNOR, NOT
EXACTLY A TRUMP ENTHUSIAST,
WELCOMED THE ELECTORS AND
OBSERVED THE PROCESS, AS
PROTESTORS MARCHED AROUND THE
STATEHOUSE IN A LINE OF FIERCE
PURPOSE AND FUTILITY.
>> BASICALLY, IT'S THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE
THERE.
IT'S THE GREATEST PLACE IN THE
WORLD TO LIVE.
IF WE WERE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY,
THEY'D BE PULLING UP IN PADDY
WAGONS AND ARRESTING THEM.
JOHN: NO ONE WENT ROGUE, NO ONE
BROKE RANKS.
ALL 18 ELECTORS FOLLOWED THEIR
DUTY AS OUTLINED BY THE STATE TO
VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE'S CHICE.
THE POWER OF THE PEN WAS ON
DISPLAY IN THIS AUGUST SETTING.
TREASURY SECRETARYJOSH MANDEL,
ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROTESTORS,
VOICED HOPE THAT A SENSE OF
UNITY WOULD EMERGE.
THE ONLY EVIDENT UNITY, HOWEVER,
WAS AMONG THE ELECTORS.
SHERIFF JONES, MARY ANNE
CHRISTIE, ALEX TRIANTAFILOU, THE
3 FROM GREATER CINCINNATI.
HONORED TO HAVE ALL THIS
ATTENTION TO A PREVIOUSLY HO-HUM
PROCESS, ILLUMINATED THIS TIME
BY THE TRUMP PHENOMENON.
>> AND I THINK IT'S GOOD FOR THE
COUNTRY.
THEY OUGHT TO KNOW HOW WE
ACTUALLY SELECT OURPRESIDENTS.
JOHN: NO MATTER WHERE ONE FALLS
ON THE ELECTION RESULTS,
SECRETARY JON HUSTED SAID, THIS
WAS AN OCCASION TO CELEBRATE
FREEDOM.
AT THE STATEHOUSE IN COLUMBUS,
