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Nebraska lawmakers vote against Trump-fueled push to change electoral vote system
The former president and Gov. Jim Pillen (R) threw their support behind a languishing proposal to return the state to a winner-take-all system to potentially aid Trump in November
Former president Donald Trump’s push to get the Nebraska legislature to change the way it awards electoral votes faced a major setback Wednesday night, when lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to prevent the change from being attached to an unrelated bill.
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The vote to override needed 23 yes votes to pass, given the attendance in the chamber at the time of the vote. Only eight voted yes.
In a text message after the vote, State Sen. John Cavanaugh (D), who represents Omaha, said Republicans had few other options for trying to pass winner-take-all this session. “They could attempt again, but we have put blocking motions and amendments on anything we think they could attempt to attach it to,” he wrote in a text message.
The sponsor of the winner-take-all proposal has said he does not have the votes to overcome a filibuster, but Trump’s intervention has raised speculation that Republicans could regroup.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/03/nebraska-electoral-votes-trump-push/
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