DEMS/ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is now defending the constitutional mechanism he once opposed, the very thing that got him elected in the first place. The Electoral College…In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is now defending the constitutional mechanism he once opposed, the very thing that got him elected in the first place. The Electoral College…Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Tex., has also said that eliminating the Electoral College might be a good idea ‘because you had an election in 2016 where the loser got 3 million more votes than the victor.’ Both Trump in 2016 and George W. Bush in 2000 won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. Democrats who want to change the system say the Electoral College forces candidates to focus on a limited number of battleground states, while ignoring those where one party dominates the presidential vote.”
–David Jackson, “President Donald Trump once called the Electoral College a ‘disaster.’ Now he’s backing it,” USA Today, March 20, 2019 8:12 am