2016 Faithless Electors in Close Election

[TML]

In 2016, there were a total of seven electoral votes which went to neither Trump nor Hillary (2 on Trump's side, and 5 on Hillary's side). Since Trump's pledged number of EVs was 306, faithless electors did not have any effect on the winner of the election. This made me wonder: what if the winner had 275 or less pledged EVs? Would that have reduced the number of faithless electors, or would that have handed the election to Congress?

[President Johnson]

Give the election to Trump, obviously.

[uti2]

Hillary lost some EVs to faithless electors too. The only reason the narrative was pushed was in light of Trump's decently sized EV victory, in a closer race, the movement probably doesn't happen.

[Bones]

There are 0-1 faithless electors on the winner's side,  2-5 on the loser's side. The winner's electors will not risk their pledged candidate losing to the greater evil by voting against him/her. The loser's electors will feel just as free to vote against their candidate, however.