The Electoral College consists of 538 electors — the same number as members of Congress. 435 for members of the House of ...

Nationally, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, or electors, meaning a candidate needs to secure 270 to win. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. In 2020 ...

But it's possible the candidate with the most votes won't be the winner. This is because the president is not chosen directly by the voters, but by something called the electoral college. When ...

Nationally, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, or electors, meaning a candidate needs to secure 270 to win. Electors are typically party loyalists who pledge to support the candidate who ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back against the notion that his recent remarks about abolishing the Electoral College would mean disregarding rural voices, challenging the criticism by urging for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The way it functions today — with electors acting as proxies for voters ...

Tim Walz, remained silent Thursday on whether he still supports eliminating the Electoral College, after the Harris campaign insisted his position did not reflect that of the campaign's.

You’d think, from the amount of election talk that confronts us daily that everyone cared about what happens on Nov. 5. You’d ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz argued Tuesday that the US needs to do away with the Electoral College as Democrats worry about a repeat of 2016 that would see the Harris-Walz campaign winning the popular ...

In an hour-long podcast interview last week with relatively freethinking Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, the prime minister lamented the way he had handled the electoral reform file. He even posted ...

In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes to the ...