A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move.
GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district.
McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off a change ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Here you go, because it’s so buried in the article and takes forever to say what all this is about…
So essentially, Republicans are trying to subvert the actual goddamn election by just declaring the winner they want…
Fuck off…
Before the election, he won’t support changing the law that allocates votes as it’s currently done.
They aren’t saying allocate the votes to a candidate, they’re talking about how the votes are currently allocated within the electoral college in the state.