President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday night and declared that Democrats were “fighting hard” to make all future presidential elections based “exclusively” on the Electoral College.
The curious late-night post prompted many to wonder if the incoming president was trolling liberals after finally winning the popular vote on his third try. At the same time, some progressives hoped that Trump’s assertion could lead conservatives to be “radicalized” against the notion of relying on states’ electoral votes to determine presidential elections.
Despite opinion polls showing that eight in 10 Democratic voters prefer to see the winner of the presidential election decided by whoever receives the most votes nationally while the majority of Republicans prefer the state elector system, Trump insisted that Democrats were working to keep the Electoral College.
