What is the Electoral College and how does the US use it to elect presidents?

by Associated Press November 5, 2024November 5, 2024

FILE - Mia Lemon, 13, an eighth grader at Skyline Middle School, marks Nevada as a blue state as she counts ballots cast by her fellow students during the school's mock presidential election Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Harrisonburg, Va. (Nikki Fox/Daily News-Record via AP, File)

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000.

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