4/26/2018

ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [4-26-18] voiced support for doing away with the Electoral College for presidential elections in favor of a popular vote because the latter would be ‘much easier to win.’ The president’s support for a popular-vote presidential election came as an aside during a freewheeling Thursday morning interview with ‘Fox & Friends,’ the Fox News morning show he is known to watch and from which he receives almost unflinchingly positive coverage. Trump made the remark amid a larger point about public figures who publicly support him in turn benefiting from a boost of popularity from Trump supporters…But despite Trump’s claims that his election was a landslide victory, he has at times been haunted by the fact that Democrat Hillary Clinton beat him in the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, a result Trump has chalked up to a strategic decision by his 2016 team not to campaign in blue states. Only one Republican, George W. Bush in 2004, has won the nationwide popular vote in presidential elections dating back to 1992.”

-Louis Nelson, “Trump pushes to swap Electoral College for popular vote,” Politico, April 26, 2018 10:47 am