Trump wins 4 out of 5 of Nebraska's electoral votes
Former President Trump is projected to win four out of five of Nebraska's electoral votes, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
Nebraska is one of two states that does not use a winner-take-all system for awarding its electoral votes. Instead, three separate electoral votes are awarded based on the candidates’ performance in each of the three congressional districts. The state awards two additional electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in the state.
Maine awards its electoral votes similarly, offering four votes in total.
There have been multiple instances when Nebraska split its electoral votes, such as in both 2008 and 2020, when former President Obama and President Biden, respectively, won the state’s 2nd Congressional District.
Trump had pushed to change Nebraska’s electoral system to a winner-take-all one, in which the state awards all of its electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the state.
Those efforts have been largely unsuccessful, including most recently in September when several GOP state senators remained holdouts on changing the system.
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