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A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move.

GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district.

McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off a change ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (3 children)

i hate how often this country has to rely on a handful of republicans who actually possess a suggestion of a spine doing the right thing in order to avoid complete fucking catastrophe

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Fwiw, McDonnell was, until last year, a Democrat. The article mentions it towards the end, but, in essence, he's pro-life due to his religious beliefs. He refused to block the GOPs push to enact far-reaching abortion restrictions. The Democrats censured him for breaking from the party line. He swapped over to the GOP shortly thereafter.

So, good on him for having a spine to vote his convictions regardless of party affiliations. Very no good, bad, don't do it of him to be convinced his particular supernatural fantasies have any bearing whatsoever on the bodily autonomy of his constituents.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

And, unfortunately, those are the ones pushed out of politics by the Trump mob.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Fucking good on you McDonnell. I don't know shit else about you but in this case you did the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here you go, because it's so buried in the article and takes forever to say what all this is about...

McDonnell said he has told Republican Gov. Jim Pillen that he won’t back a change in the Nebraska law for allocating its electoral votes ahead of this year’s election.

So essentially, Republicans are trying to subvert the actual goddamn election by just declaring the winner they want...

Fuck off...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Before the election, he won't support changing the law that allocates votes as it's currently done.

They aren't saying allocate the votes to a candidate, they're talking about how the votes are currently allocated within the electoral college in the state.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

If Harris wins MI WI PA but loses AZ NV NC GA, that Omaha district is her 270th electoral vote.

Cause 269-269 is probably a win for Trump. So this could matter quite a bit.