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Originally Posted by Hugh
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This is base constitutional illiteracy. The president is elected by the States, who in turn poll their citizens in order to direct the electors the states send to DC - the electors whose work there is now screeds of evidence Trump tried to interfere with, even before whipping up a mob to prevent their votes being certified on January 6.
Even if she was correct on the constitutional procedure, Trump rather awkwardly lost the popular vote in 2016 and in 2020, so he maybe doesn’t really want a system in which the actual votes cast by individual citizens translate directly to support for one candidate or another.