One Republican State Senator Paves Way for Trump to Possibly Lose by Single Electoral Vote
A single Republican state senator has opened up a potential nightmare scenario for former President Donald Trump.
Republican Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell announced Monday that he opposes changing the state’s current system, where presidential candidates are awarded one electoral vote for each congressional district they win, plus two votes for whoever wins the whole state, to a winner-take-all allocation. McDonnell’s refusal to back the change would allow Vice President Kamala Harris to lose every Sub Belt swing state and still defeat Trump 270 to 268 if she pulls off victories in the Rust Belt and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
Without McDonnell’s support, Nebraska Republicans have no path to overcome a filibuster blocking the change to how electoral votes are allocated, according to the Nebraska Examiner.
In the event that Trump and Harris each receive 269 electoral votes in November, the House delegations for each state would vote for their preferred candidate and the candidate with the most states backing them takes the White House — a process that would favor Trump as 26 states currently have majority-Republican delegations, according to CNN.
Every other state in the union, with the exception of Maine, awards electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis. President Joe Biden won Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District in 2020, however, Trump won it in 2016. (Read more from “One Republican State Senator Paves Way for Trump to Possibly Lose by Single Electoral Vote” HERE)
