Opponents of the Electoral College argue that the effort to abolish it is bipartisan and would not change if the popular vote swung toward former President Donald Trump.
The Electoral College has become an increasingly partisan matter, particularly after Democratic resentment in 2016, when Trump lost the popular vote but won enough electoral votes to secure the presidency. The seemingly partisan nature of campaigns against the Electoral College has, in turn, endeared it to Republicans — a 2023 Pew poll found that while 82% of Democrats want to abolish the Electoral College, only 47% of Republicans do.
The heavy bias has led many to suspect that if fortunes were to sway the other way, with Trump winning the popular vote but President Joe Biden winning the Electoral College, advocates for its abolition would change course. However,
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