Nebraska's split-vote electoral system, which the Democrat-leaning Maine also uses, came into effect in 1991, with the state facing multiple attempts to repeal it since. The current proposal was introduced in 2023 by Senator Loren Lippincott.
A single Republican state senator appears to be holding back a push by Donald J. Trump to net a potentially pivotal electoral vote even before ballots are cast.
Nebraska is one of two states that award some of its electoral votes by congressional district. A vote from the Omaha area is part of Harris’s easiest path to victory.
Donald Trump, with the help of Lindsey Graham, is pushing for Nebraska to change it's allocation of electoral votes to give himself an advantage.
As the Trump campaign pressures Nebraska Republicans for a change that would net him an electoral vote, state law in Maine would block Democrats from making a counter-move.
Former President Donald Trump spoke by phone Wednesday with at least one of the two dozen Republican state senators who attended Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s winner-take-all meeting at the Governor’s Mansion.
Too late for Maine Democrats to retaliate, Nebraska Republicans may implement a winner-take-all system, swiping an electoral vote from Harris.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took a trip to the Cornhusker state last week intending to secure one more possible electoral vote for former President Trump — through a crunch-time upheaval of Nebraska's vote allocation system.
Republicans in Nebraska are trying to change a critical part of the state’s electoral process, which could have significant effects on the presidential election. The change, a switch from a system that awards electoral votes by congressional districts to a more traditional winner-take-all system,
“To my friends in Nebraska,” Graham (R-S.C.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “that one electoral vote could be the difference between [Kamala] Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced his support for Nebraska Republican’s effort to flip the state’s way of distributing Electoral College votes to a winner-take-all electoral system — a