Hillary Clinton is advocating for an end to the Electoral College. In an interview promoting her new book 'What Happened,' she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, “I think it needs to be eliminated."
Hillary Clinton is advocating for an end to the Electoral College.
In an interview promoting her new book 'What Happened,' she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, “I think it needs to be eliminated. I’d like to see us move beyond it, yes.”
“If you look at our recent history, we have had several candidates, nominees, who have won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. What does that say?" Clinton noted. "It says that an anachronism that was designed for another time no longer works."
“We’ve moved toward one person, one vote. That’s how we select winners," she added.
Clinton lost the presidential race by 70 electoral votes even though she tallied nearly three million more ballots than Republican opponent Donald Trump in the 2016 popular vote.
“Trump was pretty close to having an optimal Electoral College strategy,” Nate Silver with the statistics site FiveThirtyEight attempted to explain the discrepancy in February.
He also faulted Clinton for her approach including spending too much time in close states like Ohio and North Carolina rather than what he called tipping-point states like Pennsylvania and for not campaigning in a broader range of states.
According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website, the Electoral College is a Constitutional process representing, “a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.”
