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During an appearance on Mobile, AL radio’s FM Talk 106.5, Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle insisted President Donald Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes, the amount required to win the 2020 presidential election in the Electoral College, was much wider than many political watchers are anticipating.

The Founders were fully familiar with vote fraud and electoral distortion, which is as old as democracy itself — and they had a plan to deal with it: the Electoral College.

President Donald Trump’s pathway back into the White House is widening, as allies of the president see after a long and brutal summer of the president climbing back into contention in enough battleground states to seal the deal and win a second term.

A Monmouth University poll out on Thursday shows incumbent GOP President Donald Trump has taken a decisive lead over Democrat candidate former Vice President Joe Biden in the battleground state of Iowa.

A coalition of leftist groups is “secretly” discussing how to mobilize and prepare for what it envisions as a “political apocalypse” full of violence and chaos if Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden fails to win a landslide victory on November 3, the Daily Beast reported Monday.

If the Electoral College cannot decide, the House does. And each state, not each member, casts a vote. Republicans have more members in 26 states.

A poll of likely voters in Pennsylvania released Tuesday shows the Keystone State’s presidential contest between incumbent GOP President Donald Trump and Democrat nominee former Vice President Joe Biden is tied.

A new poll released this weekend shows President Donald Trump, the incumbent GOP president, has taken a national and battleground states lead over his Democrat challenger presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden.

University of Maryland-Baltimore County Professor William Blake argued that the Electoral College is the product of “white supremacy” in a recently published opinion column. Blake, a political science professor, argues that “the founders’ only remaining justification for the Electoral College is structural racism.”

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states may punish “faithless electors” — those members of the Electoral College who refuse to cast their ballots for the candidate whom the majority of voters in the state have chosen.

The Economist magazine predicted Joe Biden has an 87 percent chance of winning the general election in November.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case in which electors were fined by the State of Washington for casting their Electoral College votes for a candidate other than the one chosen by the voters.

Republicans will continue fighting to keep the Electoral College, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland. 

“I think that the Electoral College has run its course and in the future, we ought to pick our presidents in a way that makes sure that the one who got the most votes actually gets to be president,” Buttigieg said in a CNN town hall on Thursday.

During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg stated that “the Electoral College has run its course, and in the future, we ought to pick our presidents in a way that

Singer Jason Mraz released a music video for his political anthem “Vote Louder” on Thursday, calling President Trump a  “Twitter tyrant” and urging people to “vote to overthrow the Electoral College.”

Hans von Spakovsky, an expert in election law, said the Justice Department should sue states illegally registering non-citizens to vote.

Jeff Sessions, currently running to reclaim his U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, sent out an interesting and important tweet on December 21.  It featured a photo of the top House Democrats who spearheaded the impeachment of President Trump; in the picture were Reps. Nancy Pelosi of California, Jerry Nadler of New York, Maxine Waters of California, Elliot Engel of New York, Adam Schiff of California, and Carolyn Maloney of New York.  Underneath the photo were the words, “This is why we have the Electoral College.”  

Actor Adam Goldberg said late Wednesday that the possibility of overturning the 2016 presidential election is not a threat to democracy and should not dissuade House Democrats from voting to impeach and remove President Donald Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took her beef with the Electoral College a step further over the weekend, expressing her hope to be the “last American president elected by the Electoral College.”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday listened and nodded to a claim from Pastor William Barber that illegal immigrants from Mexico were merely reclaiming land from the United States.

Voters in Florida say the Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry has “galvanized” their support of the president, with Trump supporters indicating that they are more enthusiastic for his presidency now than they were in 2016.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore spoke at the “Bernie’s Back Rally” in New York City on Saturday and declared that Hillary Clinton “beat” President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Cities in red states such as Texas, Georgia, and Arizona are becoming increasingly deep blue as a wave of millennials and white liberals move from blue state cities, coupled with a booming foreign-born population.

The left has a hot new cause: getting rid of the Electoral College.  And if the left succeeds in doing away with that venerable institution, its next target, the U.S. Senate, will fall like a dried apple.

Like all Americans, I’ve been deeply moved and horrified by the recent spate of mass shootings. Surely, I thought, there must be some commonsense gun regulations that could put an end to the carnage — red-flag laws, longer waiting periods, age limits, something! 

Pop icon Barbra Streisand has declared that the Electoral College, a system widely seen as the bedrock of the U.S constitution and its democratic principles, represents an “assault on our democratic principles.” 

Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” host Chris Hayes took on the Electoral College and how it can allow for candidates to win the presidency without a majority of the vote, which undermines the premise of one person, one vote.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Fair Fight Action Chair and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams argued in favor of abolishing the Electoral College. Host Chris Hayes asked, “There have been some calls to get rid of the

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continued her verbal assault on the Electoral College, this time smearing the Constitutional system that guarantees big states don’t have undue influence in electing the president as an “electoral affirmative action” scheme for rural Americans.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has been noticeably absent from Twitter for the majority of the week, returned on Friday in a Twitter thread, ranting about the Electoral College and accusing the GOP of being “scared” of a popular vote because “they *know* they aren’t the majority.”

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that eliminating the Electoral College would “silence” Iowans’ voices and those in many other states across America. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) openly mocked the Electoral College, and as a consequence, Middle America’s voice, in an Instagram video posted Monday.

Buttigieg admitted that “people look at me funny as if this country was incapable of structural reform” when he proposed those ideas.

Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted that President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidenital “fair and square” through the Electoral College.

Presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made another call to abolish the Electoral College in a tweet Friday afternoon to his 9.4 million Twitter followers.