There are 538 votes in the Electoral College and it takes 270 — a majority — to win the presidency. In the 2024 election, CBS News projects Trump has secured 312 to Harris' 226. The race ...

Every four years, there’s one thing everybody is talking about: the Electoral College. It’s not a school, despite what it ...

One of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will likely reach the benchmark of 270 electoral votes needed to become the 47th president soon after the last votes are cast Nov. 5. However, it is ...

Early Wednesday, Trump became the first candidate to collect 270 electoral votes to win back the White House. U.S. News breaks down how those votes were won in each state. Interested in more ...

These are the Electoral College votes a candidate needs to win the presidency. The system has been around since our first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes.

With Donald Trump’s crushing victory this past Tuesday, schemes to get rid of the Electoral College are off the table — for the next several years, at least. It could have been otherwise.

A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the Pew Research Center. But the system has survived an unprecedented ...

The Electoral College has received a lot of attention of late, leading many to question why it exists — and what it would take to remove it. In two of the six presidential elections conducted ...

But determining the winner is not as simple as totaling up how many people voted for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, because of the Electoral College. The Electoral ...

Unlike his first Electoral College win in 2016, Trump is on track to win the popular vote this year — providing him an ...

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have spent months traveling the country on the 2024 presidential election campaign trail, vying for America's vote to move into the ...

However, while every vote is significant, the outcome is ultimately decided by the Electoral College, a system that some critics argue is outdated. The Electoral College is a complex system in ...