Democratic effort to subvert the Electoral College plows into immovable GOP wall

Published March 29, 2019 4:11am ET



An effort led by Democrats to scrap or bypass the Electoral College and shift presidential elections to contests decided by the national popular vote has almost no chance of succeeding, guaranteeing Democrats will again have to defeat Trump in the Electoral College they lost in 2016 while winning more votes nationally.

The Electoral College places the power to elect presidents in the hands of individual states and is enshrined in the Constitution.

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