Former President Donald Trump was the last president to do so, winning about 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016, though he won the Electoral College by a sizable margin, 304 to 227.

The number of electoral votes equals the number of senators and representatives to which each state is entitled (100 + 435) plus three electoral votes for Washington, D.C., for a total of 538.

If Trump’s best chance to wall off Harris from 270 electoral votes is clear enough to both campaigns, it’s also not lost on them that the vice president at least has more options than Biden.

The Electoral College forces candidates to appeal to a wider range of voters across different states and regions, we’re told, potentially promoting more moderate and inclusive policies.

That’s because the 2020 census has tinkered with the Electoral College map and the campaigns’ electoral math, with Nebraska, typically a flyover state, tipped to be more important to Biden and ...

Let’s look at the Electoral College map. Say Biden wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. But say Trump wins Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. None of these outcomes is at all farfetched.

The Republican Party has long held an advantage over Democrats when looking at the Electoral College map, and a new report has found that the GOP has never benefitted more from the election system ...

The Electoral College has to go. Our convoluted system under which voters indirectly select Presidents is needlessly cumbersome, alienates voters, and undermines our democracy. Whatever virtues it may ...

Now, a new Facebook post is spreading an unrealistic electoral map that shows Trump with a stunning 410 votes, and Biden at 128 votes. "This is the actual results of the election," text above the ...

Trump's chance for reelection in 2020 was soured by Biden, who amassed an inverse of 2016's original electoral college results and won 306 votes to Trump's 232.

Nebraska is one of two states that splits its electoral votes, and Mr. Trump won the other four. President Trump did not make any gains on the electoral map compared to his victories in 2016.

Nevada was won by Clinton in 2016, so the only “flips” needed for Joe Biden would be the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Michigan, and the all-important 20 electoral votes from Pennsylvania.