President-elect Donald Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, holds a lead of about 2.5 million votes nationwide — but it's not the popular vote that ...

Abigail Spanberger signed a bill making Virginia the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. That’s an agreement among states to elect the president by the popular vote rather ...

Nov 5 (Reuters) - In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral ...

(NEXSTAR) – Efforts to end or alter the Electoral College have existed for years, but one state has brought the U.S. closer to a critical threshold that could change how votes are counted in 2028. A ...

Early in-person voting begins for California Proposition 50 in Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 25, 2025. Momentum is growing behind a push to elect U.S. presidents by the national popular vote after ...

The Commonwealth of Virginia is poised to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement already joined by 17 other states and Washington, DC, in an attempt to effectively eliminate ...

Ballots await unsealing during a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college votes of the 2024 presidential election on Jan. 6 last year. (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) A ...