She cited President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College despite Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s apparent popular vote advantage.
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The president-elect, who clinched the 2016 presidential race with 50-plus electoral votes more than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, praised the Electoral College for bringing all states into play.
Trump beat Clinton 290-232 (Michigan is still too close to call, with Trump expected to win 16 more electoral votes) to capture the Whote House.
Donald Trump has had a change of heart about the Electoral College, just days after saying he would rather see a popular-vote election in the future.
Donald Trump has pushed back against a surge of liberal anger that he won the presidency last week despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, defending the Electoral College system and adding that if it didn’t exist he would have conducted his campaign differently. “Campaigning is much different!” If Clinton had won Florida instead, McWhirter said simple math shows she would have probably won the election. Barbara Boxer of California introduced a measure on November 15 that would eliminate the Electoral College for good. But as of Tuesday, it’s unclear whether he would support Boxer’s bill.
Four years ago, Trump tweeted that the Electoral College was a “disaster for democracy”.
“You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win”, he told interviewer Lesley Stahl. No, and it would require a constitutional amendment via two-thirds vote by both the House and Senate, and it would need to be ratified by 38 states at some point within seven years.
Fortune analyzed the transcripts of concession speeches from US presidential elections dating back to 1952, when Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson, who lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower, delivered the first-ever televised concession speech. “As a matter of policy, it’s clear the Electoral College is outmoded”.
Boxer is retiring at the end of her term and will be replaced by state Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was elected to the seat last week.
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More than 42 million Americans voted before Election Day, but their ballots may still be getting counted a week later. In fact, the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College for precisely the goal of preventing someone like Donald Trump from becoming president.
