Nebraska Republicans' bid to help Trump win the Electoral College, explained

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Biden won NE-2 by 6.5 percentage points, and Trump won ME-2 by 7.5.)
67% : Maine is the only other state that splits its vote by congressional district, but there, the current rule benefits Trump -- it delivered him one elector in a state Biden won.
65% : "Just hours later, Gov. Pillen made his announcement that, "in response to a call out for his support," he supported such a change, and Trump praised him in a Truth Social post.
54% : Nebraska is a deep red state that Trump won by a 19-point margin in 2020.
49% : The stakes could be enormous: the single electoral vote from Nebraska's Second District really could determine whether Trump or Biden wins in 2024.
47% : The new House of Representatives would break the tie with each state delegation getting one vote, and since Republicans will almost surely control more state delegations, that means a tie likely goes to Trump.
45% : On Tuesday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) urged his state's legislature to change its rules for this year's presidential election -- a change that, if passed, would be very likely to flip one electoral vote from President Joe Biden to Donald Trump.
45% : In Maine, the rural Second District swung to Trump in both 2016 and 2020.
33% : Democrats could, in theory, change Maine's rules and cancel out any advantage gained by Trump.
27% : If Biden wins Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, while Trump wins Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, and no other outcomes change from 2020, then Biden would need Nebraska's Second District vote to win.
25% : Pillen and Trump want to switch this to a winner-take-all system, to lock down that vote for Trump.
14% : As they should -- if Biden loses his shot at a stray electoral vote, Trump should lose his too.
6% : The latest push kicked off on Tuesday, when conservative activist Charlie Kirk wrote on X about a nightmare scenario for Trump supporters where Nebraska's Second District could throw this year's election to Biden.

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