If no vice presidential candidate wins an Electoral College majority, the Senate will choose the new vice president, but the senators will vote individually, not state-by-state. The current Senate configuration
On Tuesday, a newBloomberg/Morning Consult surveyof key swing states found that Harris has effectively eliminated Trump's lead in the seven battlegrounds likely to determine which candidate wins the Electoral College. The NABJ's booking of Trump had spurred a backlash within the organization even b...
Under the Constitution's 12th Amendment, the House would select the next president and the Senate would pick the vice president if no candidate has a majority of Electoral College votes. By law, states have until Dec. 8 to certify their results or have the state legislature appoint electors ...
The map above shows what the 2016US Presidential Electionresults would have been if votes not cast for Hillary, Trump or one of the third party candidates had gone to fictional candidate “Did Not Vote.” See the2020 results here. Disclaimer:The map above was accurate as of January 17th, ...
The Electoral College will meet on Dec. 17. If Trump wins the Nov. 5 election, his running mate could make the switch afterward because he would be leaving his congressional office anyway. "If I were advising Rubio, I would tell him not to change his residency u...
Hillary tells@karaswisher“So there is an air of illegitimacy that surrounds Trump’s presidency, and that just infuriates them….Because I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from.”https://t.co/NovSU9xxyo — Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp)October 26, 202...
Some of those states require the margin between candidates to be below a certain threshold. Here's how the election works: Election officials in each state tally up the votes, and award electors to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes in their states. (Maine and Nebraska award...
It will be interesting to see the final numbers of people who voted but left the presidential selections blank. The answers lie in the reasons many 2020 Biden voters felt in 2024 that no candidate adequately addressed their concerns and needs. That apparently overrode the fact that the other ...
Under the 12th Amendment, members of the Electoral College vote for a president and vice president but one of the candidates “shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.” So a Trump-Rubio ticket could have prevented the 30 Florida electors from casting their vote ...
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris traded barbs about the country’s most immediate national security challenges, as each candidate has tried to paint the other as a weak leader that would see tensions in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine worsen under their w...