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There’s a war brewing between Maine and Nebraska over both states‘ practice of awarding electoral votes based on which candidate wins individual congressional districts.
The Nebraska unicameral legislature is ready to make their state a „winner-take-all“ electoral state, giving one more electoral vote to Donald Trump. In the past, very red Nebraska would award one electoral vote to the Democratic candidate based on results from Omaha and its suburbs. The other four votes would go to the Republican candidate.
In Maine, the vote away from Portland, Augusta, and nearby coastal areas went to Donald Trump in 2020, giving the former president one electoral vote of Maine’s four. Now, Maine is threatening to also move to a „winner-take-all“ system that would almost certainly deny Donald Trump an electoral vote.
In Nebraska, Donald Trump allies have convinced GOP Governor Jim Pillen to call a special session of the legislature in order to pass the change to winner-take-all.
“I am steadfast in my commitment to get winner-take-all over the finish line, thereby honoring our constitutional founding, unifying our state and ending the three-decade-old mistake of allocating Nebraska’s electoral votes differently than all but one other state,” Pillen had said.
It won’t be a sure thing. Democrats can filibuster the change and probably will.
