Idaho officially casts Electoral College votes for Trump and Vance

BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — Idaho’s four presidential electors officially cast their ballots in the Electoral College for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Tuesday at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise. 

Trump overwhelmingly won the popular vote in Idaho in November’s general election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris 66.9% of the vote to 30.4%, according to official state election results. 

On Tuesday, more than 150 people gathered in Lincoln Auditorium in the Idaho State Capitol to watch the electors cast the state’s four Electoral College votes for Trump.

The Electoral College is outlined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution as the official process for choosing the president and vice president of the United States.

“This is our opportunity as a state to participate in our nation’s history,” Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said Tuesday.

Each state receives the same number of presidential electors as that state’s members of Congress. Idaho’s four presidential electors included:

• Vicki Keen
• Jean Mollenkopf-Moore
• Brent Regan
• Doyle Beck

The four electors were selected at the 2024 Idaho Republican Party State Convention and appeared on Idahoans’ 2024 general election ballots. If Vice President Kamala Harris had won Idaho instead of Trump, other electors chosen by Democrats would have cast votes in the Electoral College.

Trump electors connected to Idaho Republican Party, Freedom Foundation

Each of the four Trump electors in Idaho has connections to the Idaho Republican Party or Idaho Freedom Foundation.

Keen, who lives in Boise, was elected to the position of national committeewoman at the 2024 Idaho Republican Party State Convention in June. Keen is an elected precinct committeewoman who previously served as state finance chair for the Idaho GOP. Keen has given $26,331 to conservative Republican candidates and committees since 2020, state campaign finance records show. Keen has financially backed former Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon, and former state Sen. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird. Keen is married to former Idaho Power CEO J. LaMont Keen.

Mollenkopf-Moore, who said she lives in Boise County, is a member of the Idaho Republican Party’s executive board who represents Region VI. Mollenkopf-Moore has contributed financially to political candidates or committees 15 times since 2020, state campaign finance reports indicate. Mollenkopf-Moore contributed to several conservative Republican candidates and officials, including Moon’s unsuccessful 2022 campaign for secretary of state and Giddings’ unsuccessful 2022 campaign for lieutenant governor. Days before the 2022 general election, Mollenkopf-Moore contributed $1,000 to the unsuccessful independent gubernatorial campaign of anti-government activist Ammon Bundy – who ran against incumbent Republican Gov. Brad Little – state campaign finance records show. Before casting her ballot in the Electoral College on Tuesday, Mollenkopf-Moore said she plans to attend Trump’s upcoming inauguration Jan. 20, similar to how Mollenkopf-Moore said she traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, to support Trump.

“You know, I am one brave woman, and I also was there on Jan. 6,” Mollenkopf-Moore said Tuesday during public remarks before casting her Electoral College ballot. “I was there because throughout my life I have always liked to witness history. I went back to support President Trump and I saw what was going on. I saw the truth of what was happening that day. And therefore, when all the media picked up on what they claimed happened, I knew it was false. False.”

On Jan. 6, a violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to make President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump official after Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen, according to the final report of U.S. House committee that investigated the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack.

Idaho’s other two Electoral College electors were Regan and Beck.

Regan is the executive director of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and the chairman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s board of directors.

Beck is a business owner who lives in Idaho Falls and has previously served as chairman of the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee. Beck also serves on the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s board of directors. Beck said he didn’t support Trump in 2016, but said Trump has “learned and he has grown” and Beck said he proudly supports Trump now.

Beck and Regan have each contributed more than $100,000 to political candidates and committees since 2020, state campaign finance records show.