In 2016 Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton but became president as a result of his winning a majority in the Electoral College. It was the fifth time in the history of the United ...

The byzantine Electoral College system has, five separate times since America began, delivered the White House to a candidate who lost the popular vote. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral ...

Five hundred and thirty-eight Electoral College votes will soon be divided between this year's presidential nominees, and for CNN’s John King, the countdown is on. The network’s chief national ...

Jeff Greenfield is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine covering U.S. politics. He’s a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and has written multiple books about American politics.

In the United States, we elect our president and vice president using the Electoral College rather than the national popular vote. To win, a party's ticket must win the most votes in enough states to ...

Track the breakdown of electoral votes by state in the contest between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

WASHINGTON — With Election Day almost here, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are wrapping up their final visits to the battleground states that could decide the next ...

The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five ...

Every presidential election cycle, constitutional law expert Alison LaCroix can count on people asking her one question when they learn what she does for a living. "Why do we have the Electoral ...

CNN data expert Harry Enten said that despite being a close race on the surface, there is a high chance that the election will actually end with the winner receiving over 300 Electoral College votes.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris faced criticism for suggesting an "expanded" Democratic playbook including ideas such as Supreme Court expansion.