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      A demonstrator holds sign that says: "Trump Lost."

      If You're Worried About President Trump Part 2, Fear the Electoral College

      Guaranteed: Trump will not win the popular vote in 2024. Yet he might get back into power, despite never having won the popular vote, much less a majority, in any election.

      Paul Goldman
      Mark J. Rozell
      Mar 07, 2023

      A simplistic 18th century math formula, not the latest complex Big Tech algorithm, is the greatest growing threat to our democracy. This formula got scratched out using a quill pen in 1787. Then it was used in 1789 to elect George Washington as our first president. This enduring presidential algo is found in Article II, Section I, of the U.S. Constitution.

      The term “Electoral College” doesn’t appear there. But the basic math does. Each state has two senators. This equals two electoral votes, regardless of population. In addition, a state gets representatives in Congress based on population. Each representative equals one additional electoral vote. The District of Columbia is allocated three electors. The Electoral College majority next year will be 270.

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      Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks in the House of Representatives.

      Raskin Says Electoral College Is a 'Danger' to Democracy and Should Be Abandoned

      "We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else: Whoever gets the most votes wins."

      Jake Johnson
      Dec 26, 2022

      Rep. Jamie Raskin, soon to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Sunday that the Electoral College is a "danger" to U.S. democracy and should be abandoned in favor of presidential elections decided by the popular vote.

      "The Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history, twice in this century alone, has become a danger, not just to democracy, but to the American people," Raskin (D-Md.) said in an appearance on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "It was a danger on January 6. There are so many curving byways and nooks and crannies in the Electoral College that there are opportunities for a lot of strategic mischief."

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      Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani

      On the Current Status of Trump's Coup Attempt--and Its Future

      It may look like this is one frivolity and absurdity after another—and it is. But if this electoral clash reaches the Supreme Court, all bets are off.

      Marjorie Cohn
      Nov 19, 2020

      Joe Biden has won states worth 306 Electoral College votes, 36 more than the 270 needed to win, and received in excess of 5 million more popular votes than Donald Trump. Yet Trump insists the election was stolen from him and he is the victor.

      Trump started attacking the election months before it happened. He leveled unsupported charges of massive voter fraud from mail-in ballots to create doubt about the integrity of the election. Knowing that Democrats would cast mail ballots in the midst of the pandemic, Trump told his supporters to vote in person on Election Day to prematurely inflate his vote totals.

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