Posted on 04/26/2018 12:30:13 PM PDT by Simon Green
President Trump on Thursday argued that he'd rather see the presidential election be determined based on the popular vote than the current Electoral College system, claiming it would be "much easier to win."
"They also like to always talk about [the] Electoral College. Well, it's an election based on the Electoral College. I would rather have a popular election, but it's a totally different campaign," Trump said during an interview with "Fox & Friends."
"It's as though you're running — if you're a runner you're practicing for the 100-yard dash as opposed to the one mile," he continued. "The Electoral College is different. I would rather have the popular vote, because it's — to me, it's much easier to win."
Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, securing 304 electoral votes to Clinton's 207.
However, Clinton defeated Trump in the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
Trump has claimed without any evidence that his defeat in the popular vote was due to widespread voter fraud.
The president has frequently touted his election victory in the 15 months he’s been in office, often explaining that it is difficult for a Republican to win the general election based on the way votes are divvied up in the Electoral College.
A month after the election, Trump took to Twitter to claim that he would have performed "even better" in the 2016 campaign if it had been based on the popular vote.
"Campaigning to win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated than the popular vote. Hillary focused on the wrong states!" he tweeted, referencing his Democratic opponent.
I might agree with him if we could be assured of honesty at the polls. Also no illegals.
NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, DC, Dallas and Houston are the largest metros (NYC and LA are as big as next 5 combined).
I don’t agree with the president on everything, including this. I still give him a passing grade so far
All who could determine the next president based on a democratic election. Scary. Here in WA there’s like four counties that determine who the governor will be and all in the Seattle area. There are 39 counties in the state.
Trump is trolling Democrats.
SLAVE STATES
Democracy means CA & NY would declare the remaining 48 to be slave States.
Everybody would move to LA & NYC to escape slavery.
Simple.
Uh no.
I’ll take our Constitution and the reasons the Founders had for setting things up this way.
Too funny - making those who claim they want to do away with the Electoral College pucker up at the thought that he could have won no matter what they did....psychology of the deal....
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