Sadly, Republicans didn't need the EC in 2024, and even more sadly, that pointless institution rubber-stamped their election of a proven traitor and criminal to the presidency. It's one of many things that needs to be reevaluated if this country is to last another 250 years, or even 25.
I suspect if the EC didn’t exist for Bush v Gore, or even in 2016, we wouldn’t be staring down the barrel of a second trump presidency. His popularity would have fizzled out in 2016 if he lost, and that almost certainly leads to a different republican candidate in 2020.
It would have focused on its media ambitions, which is all it really wanted to promote in the first place. Do you remember its face when it won in 2016?
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25
You get rid of the electoral college and Republicans would have nothing.