Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) cited a need for legislative changes and altering the structure of American elections to prevent people from “seizing” the presidency post-Trump, Axios reports.
Said Raskin: “We have to look at the way that the electoral system itself is vulnerable to strategic bad faith actors like Donald Trump. The electoral college is an accident waiting to happen and we have to deal with that at some point in American history, and why not now?”
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