How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

noun
  • There was enough votes, electoral college votes, for Trump to win last night.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The 538 website takes its name from the number of electors in the U.S. electoral college.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2024
  • Eastman had urged Pence to call for a delay in the counting of the electoral college votes on Jan. 6.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In another, the camera zooms in on King in front of the electoral college map.
    Giulia Heyward and Saba Hamedy, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Those electors will cast votes in the electoral college.
    Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • The man lost by 4 million popular votes and still had a chance to win the electoral college.
    Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The state’s four electoral college votes are only 0.7% of the whole kit and kaboodle.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In 2020, a vote shift of less than a percentage point in three close-run states would have changed the outcome in the electoral college.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • It’s one of a handful of states that for years has been projected to lose a seat - and the electoral college vote that goes along with it.
    Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 15 Apr. 2021
  • An attempt to change the state’s electoral college system failed last week on an 8-36 vote.
    Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This is part of the reason Democrats loathe the electoral college these days and Republicans love it.
    NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Ohio was a more important state for Trump to win on the way to 270 electoral college votes; Biden had more paths to get there without Ohio.
    Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Trump, who is behind in the current electoral college county, has vowed to fight the results.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Remember that Democrats won the popular vote by two points in 2016, but still lost the electoral college.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • On the phone with Pence, Pelosi expressed a desire to move forward with the process of affirming the electoral college results.
    Caroline Linton, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states award all of their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state.
    Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Trump’s in Pennsylvania, where a trove of 20 electoral college votes was at stake.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • In the 19 presidential elections since the end of World War II, the results of the electoral college and the popular vote matched closely.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • President Biden won New Hampshire and its four electoral college votes with 52 percent of the votes cast.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The result, don't count on Republicans calling for an end to the electoral college any time soon.
    NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Eric Trump, who the night before had predicted to friends that his father would win with 322 electoral college votes, flipped out in the Map Room.
    Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • In the weeks leading up to Wednesday's riot, McCarthy brushed off concerns about the electoral college count.
    Paul Kane, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The protests coincide with the certification of the votes from the electoral college by the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Still, as the day approached, Chesebro seemed concerned about whether Trump electors could meet a set of state laws that govern how the electoral college process works.
    Rosalind S. Helderman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • Trump lost his bid for reelection by more than 7 million total votes, and lost by a large margin of the states’ electoral college votes as well.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Trump campaign then moved ahead with plans to use all the certificates to pressure Congress not to certify the electoral college count for Biden.
    Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Legal experts say the suits will fail to substantially change the vote tally or provide enough votes to give Trump a win in the electoral college.
    David Voreacos, Bloomberg.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Seeking the White House for the third time, Trump holds a small but consistent lead over his 2020 rival and now incumbent Biden, with a stronger electoral college lead.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 July 2024
  • But the song would later become a theme for the majority who voted for Hilary Clinton in 2016, but still ended up with Trump thanks to the electoral college vote.
    Lorraine Ali, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024

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