President-elect Donald Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, holds a lead of about 2.5 million votes nationwide — but it's not the popular vote that ...

Democrats should stop scapegoating the system for their shrunken popular clout, and instead make the hard strategic shifts necessary to win it back. That Donald Trump managed to win both the electoral ...

WASHINGTON — While the Electoral College for decades has had 538 votes for which presidential candidates must vie, how those votes are doled out to states does change frequently. Electoral College ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency in the U.S. The number of electoral votes each state has depends on U.S. Census data and the number of ...

SACRAMENTO — Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had ...

On election night, Americans across the country were focused on one number: 270. It’s a well-known – and hotly-contentious – fact that in American politics, presidential candidates must win 270 ...