The self-identified very stable genius Donald Trump, who, in 2016 believed the United States should make money off of everything, claims to have received a landslide in the Electoral College in that same year. Truthful hyperbole aside, Mr. Trump, and any Presidential candidate in future, may not be able to match that.
It's anticipated that, in 2020, SCOTUS will hear two cases having to do with the rules governing the Electoral College, and specifically, pertaining to what have been called faithless electors.
Mr. Trump may want to re-think his label for his election. He did indeed win the electoral college. But it wasn't a landslide. It takes a minimum of 270 electoral votes
to win the Presidency. Three-plus years ago, Trump got 304. That means he earned more electoral votes than George W Bush in 2000 and 2004, but
considerably fewer than Barack Obama in 2008, which almost certainly bites his backside big-time.
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