.MaddowBlog: President Trump, who won the presidency via the Electoral College but lost the popular vote, said the Electoral College is 'a disaster for a democracy' in 2012. Now, he's changed his mind.
Around the time of Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012, which the incumbent president won with relative ease, one of his high-profile hecklers denounced the system that helped keep the Democrat in office. “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,” Donald Trump declared on Nov. 6, 2012.
As recently as last spring, he remained consistent on the issue, telling Fox News in April 2018 that he’d prefer a popular-vote system. “Campaigning for the Popular Vote is much easier & different than campaigning for the Electoral College. It’s like training for the 100 yard dash vs. a marathon. The brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win.
This affects residents with massive populations , small populations and plenty of states in between . After the primaries, major-party nominees tend not to step foot in most states.
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