Some members of the January 6 committee say the electoral college should be scrapped, and switch instead to a popular vote model where the president and vice president would be selected by voters across the country overall.
say that January 6 committee members, led by Raskin, believe that ending the Electoral College and instituting a popular vote model could help to avoid such scenarios in the future. But other members, Cheney in particular, are against such moves, claiming that, if the committee were to endorse ending the Electoral College, it could delegitimize the panel’s work overall.
The committee has tried to show a united front in all of its workings thus far, so it seems unlikely that its members will eventually call for an end to the Electoral College. More likely, the two factions will come together and recommend changes to the Electoral Count Act, the law that Trump and his campaign sought to manipulate in order to keep him in office through the counting of fake electors.
In the past, several prominent conservative voices have suggested that calls to end the Electoral College, such as in 2000, when former President George W. Bush won the election without the popular vote, and in 2016, when Trump did the same.
Though Trump was a vehement defender of his Electoral College win throughout his presidency, he, too, expressed support for ending it shortly after his win, only changing his mind, it seemed, when it became clear he might have to rely on the mechanism in order to win reelection.
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