“Donald Trump’s improbable-then-unstoppable run for the presidency takes its last, formal step Monday as the Electoral College meets to officially name him the winner,” the Washington Post reports.

“The usually overlooked, constitutionally obligated gathering of 538 electors in 50 states and the District of Columbia has earned special scrutiny and intense lobbying this year by Trump’s opponents, including last-minute weekend protests that stretched from Austin to Denver and Los Angeles.”

New York Times: Here’s what to expect.

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows there’s little support for a long-shot effort to free this year’s electors to choose a candidate other than Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump “doesn’t know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” Politico reports.

Clinton also scoffed at the regular claim from Trump and his team that the president-elect’s Election Day win represented a “landslide” victory, despite the fact that he lost the popular vote.

Said Clinton: “Landslide? I got something like 370 electoral votes. That was a landslide.”

Washington Post: “Pressure on members of the electoral college to select someone other than Donald Trump has grown dramatically — and noisily — in recent weeks, causing some to waver but yielding little evidence that Trump will fall short when electors convene in most state capitals Monday to cast their votes. Carole Joyce of Arizona expected her role as a GOP elector to be pretty simple… But then came the mail and the emails and the phone calls — first hundreds, then thousands of voters worrying that Trump’s impulsive nature would lead the country into another war.”

Politico: Electors under siege.

A new Qualtrics survey shows a large fraction of Republicans — 52% — said Trump won the popular vote, compared with only 7% of Democrats and 24% of independents. Among Republicans without any college education, the share was even larger: 60%, compared with 37% of Republicans with a college degree.

In reality, Hillary Clinton won 2.8 million more votes than Trump.