Fresh off a historic November loss and plunged into an identity crisis, the Democratic Party now finds itself struggling to ...

Trump won the popular vote by the smallest margin of any president since Richard Nixon — for the second time, winning the ...

In Maine, two of the four electoral votes are awarded to the winner of the statewide popular vote and one electoral vote is awarded to the winner in each of the state's two congressional districts.

With the expiration of the 118th Congress this month, Senators Durbin, Schatz, and Welch’s constitutional amendment “to abolish the Electoral College” expired. It aimed “to provide for the direct ...

Kennedy can only afford three Republican defections to win confirmation with Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote.

Many things could explain why possible Democratic voters stayed home in 2024, but note this: Trump lost when he ran against a ...

There was no violence at the Capitol on Monday as Congress counted states' Electoral College votes and made Donald Trump's ...

The United States works as a Republic using the Electoral College system versus a democracy using the popular vote to elect the president and vice president. In other words, the Electoral College ...

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a system to choose our president: the Electoral College. More than two ...

Trump would have secured another 62 electoral votes by winning the statewide popular vote in 31 of 50 states, giving him 291 electoral votes, 21 more than needed to win the White House. That result ...

Citizens and lawmakers periodically call for scrapping the Electoral College (often just after they have lost an election) in favor of a popular vote. This change would require amending the ...

How we elect our presidents has never been more broken — and that’s saying something for an Electoral College system subject to more proposed constitutional amendments than any other topic. We ...