Electoral College Forecast for 2020 Election
Trump won the presidency in 2016 despite Clinton receiving almost 3m more votes, all because of the electoral college. How does the system work? Were all of the votes legitimate? Not likely with all the election voting fraud coming out recently.
In 2016, Trump gained a quarter of his electoral votes from just 191,000 votes in the closest four states.
Two of the last five elections were won without gaining the most votes.
“At the moment, the electoral college favors Republicans because of the way Republican voters are distributed across the country. They are more likely to occur in states that are closely divided between the parties.”
Under the winner-take-all system, the margin of victory in a state becomes irrelevant. In 2016, Clinton’s substantial margins in states such as California and New York failed to earn her enough electoral votes, while close races in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan took Trump over the 270 majority.
