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Why Trump’s wild new scheme to win an additional electoral vote will not work

Editorial Board Published September 19, 2024
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In Nebraska on Tuesday, two dozen state senators met with Gov. Jim Pillen as a part of what could be the cycle’s very unlikely scheme to save lots of Donald Trump. The plot drew in Trump’s most sycophantic sycophant, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and is a part of a nationwide effort to steal away only one potential electoral vote from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

In contrast to most states, Nebraska doesn’t award all its electoral votes to the candidate who takes essentially the most votes within the state. As a substitute, it awards two votes to the state’s popular-vote winner after which one to the winner of every of its three congressional districts. Nebraska has been that means since 1991, when a Nebraska state senator heard in regards to the thought, thought it sounded fairer than the winner-take-all method, and was “jazzed” sufficient to draft laws that narrowly handed the Nebraska legislature.

Now Republicans try to vary these guidelines on the final minute in hopes that this can snatch victory from Harris and restore Trump to the White Home. However not solely is that this extraordinarily unlikely to make a distinction within the total race, it could set off a ready entice that might value Trump a minimum of as a lot as he gained.

The concept the election may swing a single electoral vote relies on a selected line of reasoning: What if Kamala Harris doesn’t win any southern or western swing state that Joe Biden picked up in 2020 (Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada), whereas North Carolina stays within the pink column and Harris makes a sweep of the northern industrial states?

Democrats have twice (2008 and 2020) picked up the “blue dot” of Nebraska’s 2nd District that covers Omaha and surrounding parts of two counties. However each of these elections would have been stable Democratic victories even with out the rogue Nebraska electoral vote.

Nonetheless, the thought of the blue dot making a distinction isn’t completely unattainable.

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The previous 24 hours have featured a number of the greatest polling for Harris of the marketing campaign… Harris has as away from a path to 270 than she mainly ever has… pic.twitter.com/9NFlp0bnQR

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 19, 2024

All that provides to 270, sufficient to place Harris on the inaugural stage … however provided that she additionally secures that little blue dot.

Democrats really feel fairly optimistic that the Omaha dot will likely be blue as soon as once more. Republicans are afraid they’re proper. So whereas the “Blue Wall and Nothing Else” state of affairs could also be extraordinarily unlikely, they don’t wish to take the possibility. Which is why Graham was there to share Trump’s needs with Pillen and the state senators on Wednesday. 

They need that dot.

The trouble to grab away Omaha’s vote was bolstered earlier within the yr when a state senator made his personal flip from Democrat to Republican and introduced that he would assist a winner-take-all answer … or promised to oppose it. It depends upon whom he spoke to final. However the stress is certainly on from Washington, with the Republican members of Nebraska’s U.S. Home delegation sending a letter to state legislators urging them to squash the dot. 

Nevertheless, not solely is it extraordinarily unlikely the election comes down to at least one electoral vote, but in addition all of the efforts to vary Nebraska’s system are in all probability pointless within the first place.


Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen

That’s as a result of the state senator who introduced this concept to Nebraska again in 1991 received the thought from one other state that had already break up the vote: Maine. And if Nebraska decides to slide their system again to winner-take-all, Maine Home Majority Chief Maureen Terry has promised that the Pine Tree State has promised to comply with go well with.

“If Nebraska’s Republican governor and Republican-controlled Legislature were to change their electoral system this late in the cycle in order to unfairly award Donald Trump an additional electoral vote,” Terry wrote in a press release to the Nebraska Examiner, “I think the Maine Legislature would be compelled to act.”

This issues as a result of Maine has a dependable little pink dot—a single rural Maine electoral vote, which Trump picked up in 2016 and 2020.

Flipping Maine to winner-take-all can be extra sure to take a degree away from Trump than altering Nebraska can be to take a degree from Harris. The most recent Maine polling exhibits Trump main Harris 49% to 42% in Maine’s 2nd District, however Harris with a 50% to 41% benefit statewide.

That Republicans are working so onerous to push change in Nebraska is an actual signal of Trump’s desperation. Nevertheless it’s not an actual risk to Harris’ election. 

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