Current Events > Nebraska GOP declines to change state electoral college law for Trump

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nebraska-legislators-buck-trump-blocking-electoral-college-vote-change-rcna146321

Nebraska legislators on Wednesday night blocked a late effort to change how the state allocates its Electoral College votes, despitepublicpressure from former President Donald Trump to shift to a winner-take-all system that would likely benefit him in the fall.

The measure fell short, 8-36, in a procedural vote. While its possible supporters could take another stab at advancing the proposal, there remain serious hurdles as the legislative session draws to a close, and its unclear whether the proposal has enough support to get across the finish line and become law.

Nebraska currently doles out three of its five electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins each of its three congressional districts. In practice, that puts the competitive 2nd District in the Omaha area in play, even though Republicans typically win the statewide vote easily.

Wednesday night's failed attempt to change the law to award all the states Electoral College votes to the statewide winner leaves the fate of the proposal in doubt with a few days left in the legislative session.

State Sen. Loren Lippincott, who introduced the original winner-take-all bill, told the Nebraska Examiner that hed make one final attempt to bring the measure up for a vote before the legislative session ends on April 18. However, it's unclear whether theres enough support for the change to move forward.

Lippincotts office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

thank god

Nebraska *Legislature. The GOP itself wanted it to pass.

Also worth emphasizing that the actual vote was on whether or not to overrule the Chair's decision to disallow the electoral vote change from being added to another clearly unrelated bill as a rider because it was clearly unrelated (it seems to be a contingency plan for armed conflict specifically in the Pacific Ocean region.)

Good, but worth noting that the Nebraska GOP has also gerrymandered the Omaha district in consecutive redistrictings to cut as much of it off as possible into a GOP vote sink while adding rural areas to keep the district in play.

A traditional and compact district would be a safe Dem seat and reliable blue vote in the EC.

Commence the whinging of people who don't live in Omaha to bitch and moan about their electoral vote continuing to somewhat matter.

"Fell short"
That shit was clearly DOA with the vote being 8-36.