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Former President Donald Trump owes his presidency to the Electoral College, which elected him despite Trump losing the popular vote in 2016 because of a narrow win in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But this time, the same dynamic that cost Hillary Clinton that election could be about to hit Trump, Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate.

"A refresher: At the Constitutional Convention, Southern delegates opposed direct elections of presidents," wrote Stern. "Although the South contained some of the most populous states, a huge portion of the region’s population was enslaved and disenfranchised; Southerners therefore feared that direct elections would give free states a perennial edge. So Southern delegates demanded a compromise: States would vote for the president, with each state receiving the same number of votes as members of Congress. This solution gave slave states an outsize impact on the presidency, because these states had already secured extra votes in Congress by counting their enslaved residents as three-fifths of a person."

Arguing that Donald Trump “expects to be indulged and catered to” by people around his orbit, a former GOP senior staffer asked an MSNBC host on Tuesday: “Wouldn’t it be nice if Kristi Noem had as much patience, say for her pet animals, as she does for Donald Trump on stage?”

The moment came on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House” when host Nicolle Wallace asked Amanda Carpenter, a writer and editor at the organization Protect Democracy and former aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), what she made of the former president’s recent events, including his Monday night town hall in which he stopped answering questions and instead danced to music.

A New Yorker reporter tore into so-called "reasonable Republicans" who say they still support former President Donald Trump despite a "truth-resistant" MAGA movement.

Political news outlets pounced on Trump's Monday night town hall, where he answered a few questions before deciding to play music instead. The following morning, Trump canceled a planned CNBC interview and appeared on stage with another conservative-friendly crowd where he fumbled through answers about tariffs and breaking up Google.

Pro-MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow complained that a lot of women refuse to vote for former President Donald Trump because they are "Trump bigots."

At Tuesday's Trump campaign rally in Atlanta, Blow shared his thoughts about the state of the presidential race with Right Side Broadcasting Network.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace started her Tuesday show by discussing Donald Trump's bizarre town hall on Monday night, which ended with him playing his favorite playlist.

To illustrate the strangeness, Wallace began running the video — with a timer in the middle of the screen.

A Boston Globe reporter shamed those who downplayed Donald Trump's decision to stop answering questions from his fans and instead play music and dance.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested the world could be witnessing the "live sundowning" of a presidential candidate.

A Washington Post analyst is shocked no one is talking about a disturbing moment during former President Donald Trump's town hall dance routine — and no, it wasn't when the 78-year-old, who may have forgotten whom he's running against, wandered off stage to the sounds of "Memory."

Philip Bump on Tuesday expressed confusion that one track included in Trump's "weird" playlist — played at a town hall event in Pennsylvania a day earlier after an attendee received medical attention — hadn't caused an uproar.

Former President Donald Trump's allies around the country have laid the groundwork for more election fraud conspiracy theories when the votes are counted next month, Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday — largely by forcing states to count the ballots in ways that Trump can then spuriously proclaim "suspicious" to voters ignorant of the process.

"According to four conservative attorneys and other sources who’ve spoken to the former president on this matter, Trump intends to declare — as soon as on election night — that the race is being 'rigged' or 'stolen' from him, by pointing to slow vote counts of mail-in ballots in crucial battleground states as his evidence for supposed Democratic shenanigans afoot," reported Asawin Suebsaeng, Justin Glawe, and Andrew Perez.

Ian Sams, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, challenged former President Donald Trump to release his medical records.

During a Tuesday interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, Sams noted that Trump had not disclosed his medical information.

Donald Trump left jaws on the floor as he answered questions from Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago.

In a series of questions about the economy, Micklethwait desperately tried to keep the conversation on track until Trump had to explain to him, "It's called the weave." The term has become Trump's new way of weaving through dozens of different issues in an effort to answer a simple question.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday responded to a question about reducing the federal budget deficit by uncorking a rambling answer about the state of Air Force One.

During an interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump was asked specifically what steps he would take to cut government spending in his second term.

Former President Donald Trump stunned many online critics on Tuesday during an interview in Chicago with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago.

During his interview, Trump once again reiterated his love for slapping tariffs on foreign-produced goods despite the fact that instituting such fees is highly likely to reignite inflation and send prices of consumer goods skyrocketing.

Donald Trump clashed with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait after the former president claimed to have had a peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 election.

During an interview at the Economic Club in Chicago on Tuesday, Micklethwait asked Trump about the riots he allegedly incited on Jan. 6, 2021.