Trump lauds Electoral College as Clinton wins popular vote

Is the system truly broken? As Conan O’Brien put it, “In America, we get to pick who’s going to ruin our country”. Electors have the daunting task of selecting the next president.

Each state is allotted the same number electors as its congressional delegation. Barbara Boxer, who was an outspoken supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, is set to introduce a Senate bill that aims to end the Electoral College.

Before the 2016 presidential election, there was already a movement underway to get away from using the outdated Electoral College and instead simply use popular vote. As Vox explained last week, not only would 37 electors have to desert Trump, they would also have to cast votes for Clinton as opposed to some other candidate.

Is possible for Electoral College to elect Clinton on December 19? But Trump has a large lead in the Electoral College, and it’s extremely unlikely dozens of Republican electors would abandon him.

The Electoral College is a confusing, complicated, and antiquated system, meant to promote representation and free-thinking, yet, in reality, does exactly the opposite, favoring white rural regions while suppressing voter turnout. Trump is leading in electoral votes with 290 to Clinton’s 232. This winner-take-all system is at the core of the “states versus the people” divide. In fact, one of the primary criticisms of the Electoral College is that candidates who find success through its process must only campaign to win a handful of states with heavy weight in the Electoral College. To address its consequences, we must look at potential alternatives.

He also pointed out that if the election had been based on the popular vote, he would have won it anyway, because he would have focused on campaigning in New York, California, and Florida.

Let’s remember that Donald Trump did not win the popular vote. Some recognized that they needed to vote Clinton, in order to make sure their vote mattered.

ME and Nebraska have devised a second way, dividing electors proportionally to their internal popular vote. Trump holds a small lead in MI where the secretary of state will announce a final vote count at the end of November, the report said. Changing this system – we can call it “rigged”, just like Trump did, though he hasn’t uttered that word since November 8 – would be a monumental task, requiring a Constitutional amendment, a near impossibility in this fractured political era. And if it must go, what are the best alternatives?

When asked by USA Today if the electoral college should be changed, he responded “I think you ought to think about this”.