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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) called Trump “completely unhinged” in a Sunday night tweet and requested that the Electoral College “do what it was designed for.”

We're 5 wks from Inauguration & the President Elect is completely unhinged. The electoral college must do what it was designed for. https://t.co/6dLJ5K7B5K — Jim Himes (@jahimes) December 12, 2016

Himes elaborated on Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” saying Trump’s dismissive response to a secret CIA assessment that concluded Russia swayed the 2016 election in Trump’s favor was the final straw.

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“What finally pushed me over the edge was when the president-elect of the United States criticized the CIA and the intelligence community,” Himes told CNN, as first reported by The New York Post. “Can you imagine what the leaders in Beijing and Moscow and Tehran are thinking as they watch the next president of the United States delegitimize and criticize his own intelligence community and stand up for the defense of Russia, one of our prime adversaries?"

Though Himes wants to abolish the Electoral College, he said he recognized that Trump “won fair and square.”

Ten electors hold similar concerns and published an open letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday, demanding an intelligence briefing on Trump’s ties to Russia ahead of the Dec. 19 Electoral College vote.

Any effort to convince a significant number of GOP electors to ditch Trump for another candidate faces long odds when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19. Democrats would need to sway 37 electors to abandon Trump, and so far, only one GOP elector has publicly announced his intent to defect from Trump. Meanwhile, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has rejected an effort led by Democratic electors to back him as a compromise pick.