A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move.
GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district.
McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off a change ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
i hate how often this country has to rely on a handful of republicans who actually possess a suggestion of a spine doing the right thing in order to avoid complete fucking catastrophe
Fwiw, McDonnell was, until last year, a Democrat. The article mentions it towards the end, but, in essence, he’s pro-life due to his religious beliefs. He refused to block the GOPs push to enact far-reaching abortion restrictions. The Democrats censured him for breaking from the party line. He swapped over to the GOP shortly thereafter.
So, good on him for having a spine to vote his convictions regardless of party affiliations. Very no good, bad, don’t do it of him to be convinced his particular supernatural fantasies have any bearing whatsoever on the bodily autonomy of his constituents.
And, unfortunately, those are the ones pushed out of politics by the Trump mob.
It’s always been this way, and you are finally noticing it. Wake the fuck up.
It’s only recently the Republicans are being brazen because their party is on the verge of collapsing into in-fighting between wealthy inbred racist MAGA dumbfucks and rural working-class inbred racist dumbfucks
At no point did the person you replied to mention anything about “recently” or “lately” or how any of this is new/news to them. In fact, they mentioned how often it has happened. Yet you told them to wake the fuck up because you didn’t think they had noticed it before.
Maybe you should wake the fuck up and learn how to read.
dude’s mad at the world. always posting inflammatory shit
meh- at least he’s on the right team
Fucking good on you McDonnell. I don’t know shit else about you but in this case you did the right thing.
Here you go, because it’s so buried in the article and takes forever to say what all this is about…
McDonnell said he has told Republican Gov. Jim Pillen that he won’t back a change in the Nebraska law for allocating its electoral votes ahead of this year’s election.
So essentially, Republicans are trying to subvert the actual goddamn election by just declaring the winner they want…
Fuck off…
Before the election, he won’t support changing the law that allocates votes as it’s currently done.
They aren’t saying allocate the votes to a candidate, they’re talking about how the votes are currently allocated within the electoral college in the state.
If Harris wins MI WI PA but loses AZ NV NC GA, that Omaha district is her 270th electoral vote.
Cause 269-269 is probably a win for Trump. So this could matter quite a bit.
