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 has 51 Democrats, 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats, and 47 Republicans – ...
Every year the ‘did not vote’ candidate wins in a landslide. Reply David Lloyd-Jones says January 27, 2017 at 4:06 am She wasn’t evil. This is a Republican Big Lie, told over and over, year after year, all the way back to when she was a young single lawyer on the Watergate...
The vice president oversees the counting of Electoral College votes and announces the results. They can still do this if they are a presidential candidate and it’s happened multiple times throughout history. Both the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and federal law say the president of...
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 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 i...
But lurking in that overall figure is the potential for no candidate to win a majority, in the case of a 269-to-269 tie. While seemingly not in play in the 2024 election, it’s also possible that third parties could win sufficient electoral votes to prevent a...
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 ...
The former GOP presidential candidate worries about the “unexpected” that could pop up before Election Day. Shia Kapos10/22/2024, 11:00am ETWe’re chatting with lawmakers, former elected officials and political operatives every day between now and Nov. 5 to get a ...
In modern U.S. elections, the meeting of the Electoral College is essentially a ceremonial confirmation of the choice made by voters. This year, it will take place on Dec. 14. But if the winning candidate is no longer alive, it would be anything but routine. ...
All I can say is thank god US elections are no longer determined by white men. For more 2016 US election maps see: If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2016 US Presidential Election, It Would Have Won By a Landslide Counties That Changed Party In The 2016 US Presidential...