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Candidates
Electoral votes
Vote %
Vote count
Joe Biden
Democratic Party
119
48%
21,443,615
Donald Trump
Republican Party
92
50.6%
22,606,991
originally posted by: camain
a reply to: network dude
actually I think it means something. California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, who are all typically Dem, are part of the pact. IF Trump wins the popular vote, per the dems, who instituted the pact, all those state have to go to trump. Trump would literally win California LOL. This means that in no way can biden win if Trump wins popular.
en.wikipedia.org...
Camain
originally posted by: camain
a reply to: network dude
actually I think it means something. California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, who are all typically Dem, are part of the pact. IF Trump wins the popular vote, per the dems, who instituted the pact, all those state have to go to trump. Trump would literally win California LOL. This means that in no way can biden win if Trump wins popular.
en.wikipedia.org...
Camain
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[3][4] As of October 2020, it has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia, although it is suspended in Colorado.[2] Including Colorado, these states have 196 electoral votes, which is 36% of the Electoral College and 73% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
originally posted by: DanDanDat
originally posted by: camain
a reply to: network dude
actually I think it means something. California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, who are all typically Dem, are part of the pact. IF Trump wins the popular vote, per the dems, who instituted the pact, all those state have to go to trump. Trump would literally win California LOL. This means that in no way can biden win if Trump wins popular.
en.wikipedia.org...
Camain
Not enough states have signed up to the compact to have trigger it yet.
But you bring up a good example as to why the compact would never work. Do you really think a state like CA would award their votes to Trump assuming he where to win a popular vote? Not a chance;they would simply remove themselves from the compact.