Jan. 6 Committee Member Suggests Ending Electoral College to Avoid 'Accident Waiting to Happen'

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Jan. 6 Committee Member Suggests Ending Electoral College to Avoid 'Accident Waiting to Happen'
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the January 6 committee investigating the attack on Congress, said we must consider abolishing the Electoral College, saying it is “an accident waiting to happen.”

“account for now the possibility of presidents just taking a headlong rush at seizing the presidency.”the peaceful transition of presidential power, Raskin noted. But additional laws may be needed to deter attempts to usurp an election result.“We have to look at the way that the electoral system itself is vulnerable to strategic bad faith actors like Donald Trump,”“We have to deal with that at some point in American history,” Raskin said.

. As a result, Trump denounced Pence in his incendiary “Stop the Steal” speech on the day the election was set to be certified, prompting his loyalists to call for Pence to be hanged as they attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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