Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly shot down a suggestion from President Donald Trump this week that the Electoral College be replaced with a national popular vote for President
According to the Wall Street Journal, which recapped Trump’s first week in office on Friday, discussion of the Electoral College took place during a White House meeting between Trump and senior congressional leaders on Tuesday.
Citing anonymous sources who attended the meeting, the Journal reported that Trump raised the possibility of adopting a nation-wide popular vote in the meeting, even thought he lost that metric to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
This would have been the same meeting in which Trump reportedly brought up, again, his baseless belief that millions of “illegal” votes lost him a popular vote victory.
McConnell cautioned against the idea, according to the Journal, pointing out the complex recount process in Florida in 2000 and projecting the headache on a national scale. Trump demurred, according to the report.
WTF? It was the electoral college that slid Cheeto Donnie into office?
I’m pretty sure this would require a Constitutional amendment. I don’t see that as something that’s possible, even if McConnell wanted it.
Which, of course, he doesn’t. They’d never win the White House again.
Rolled over and presented his haunches to Mitch, did he?
So much for being a “real leader” and “winning” at humiliate-and-dominate politics, loser.
Sad!
You plagiarized the comment I was just about to write!
McConnell knows that the EC helps the South wield disproportionate power and would prevent GOP presidential victories in the future. The EC and gerrymandering are the two keys to GOP power.