As Trump Hints at Future Election Subversion Attempts, Walz Endorses Ending the Electoral College

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Trump also said the Electoral College should be ended in the days after his own election win in 2016, stating in an interview that he wouldn't "change my mind just because I won."
46% : "He couldn't cross the line of doing what was right, in my opinion," Trump said of Pence in that interview.
42% : Although Republicans claimed they were pursuing the change so that Nebraska's procedure would be more in-line with the rest of the country, it appeared that the move was actually an attempt to benefit Trump in the election.
33% : Trump's attempt to subvert the results of his 2020 election loss to Biden was itself a sign of the fragility of the Electoral College system -- were it not for then-Vice President Mike Pence disagreeing with Trump's errant claim that, as president of the Senate, he could disrupt the official count of the elector votes, Trump could have stayed in office despite losing that year's race.
25% : (Every claim by Trump and his allies suggesting otherwise has been thoroughly debunked.)
22% : Notably, Trump has also called for ending the Electoral College in the past.
19% : Trump himself is campaigning on ending birthright citizenship, a key pillar of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution -- and also called for the "termination" of the entire document in 2022 as a means for him to retake the White House two years after he lost the presidential race to Joe Biden.
17% : In an interview that aired on Wednesday, Trump lamented Pence's decision not to disrupt the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021, indicating that his campaign may embrace a similar strategy if he loses the 2024 election to Harris.
7% : On election night in 2012, when it appeared that former President Barack Obama was going to win the Electoral College without securing the popular vote, Trump described the mechanism for selecting the president as being a "disaster for democracy."

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