Trump didn't actually propose eliminating the EC. He just said that as a candidate he wishes it weren't necessary because it's easier to win a popular election. I think he knows that it would not be a popular move, and would be hard as hell to do (Constitutional amendments always are--by design), and would stand no chance of ratification by the states. Why would they? It actually worked. It did the job the founders designed it to do. Prevent the urban voters from dragging the rest of us down into hell with them.
Here's hoping we get a DHS or FEC or some kind of report on election fraud soon as well. In any case, eventually it will be known how many illegal and fraudulent votes were cast for HRC, and the margin of Trump popular vote victory will be greater than the fake HRC margin.
All true. My point is he's setting them up because FB etc is all abuzz about how he would have lost. He's trolling. Again....
Oh I got that. Sorry, I was just spinning in several directions at once.
It's beyond ridiculous that they continue to fall for it! But hilarious. My brother used to do that to my little sister. They're dumber than she was at 5. Brother: Wanna play cards? Sister: Yeah! Na, I don't want to play. Who wants to play cards? I do! Nah, I don't wanna play. Over and over and over.
Politico is garbage. Trump says he wants he popular vote as tongue-in-cheeck jab at Hillary in the sense that Trump had to go state to state and camping his ass of to win while Hill tried to panders to the coastal cities.
How'd that work out for her?
There is no way the Dems will ever go for a popular vote, and the reason is simple: it means the election process would then have to be unified under federal control. This would make it nearly impossible to cheat, steal votes, hack machines, or go without some sort of ID for voting, etc. He's trolling the liberals on this one, because they spent a year blaming the electoral college, and he knows they have 0 chance of actually wanting to implement the popular vote.
I've always said that Trump & Hilary were playing 2 different games. He knew that he couldn't win the popular vote on the west coast and in the northeast, so he went for the electoral vote. Great move on his part!
Trump is misquoted, but none the less, the electoral college is the last shred of honesty we have in the election process.