A growing effort backed by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to switch Nebraska's electoral process to winner-take-all hit a major snag on Monday after a key state lawmaker said he wouldn't support such a change before the November election.
State Sen. Mike McDonnell, one of the key Republicans holdouts GOP Gov. Jim Pillen was looking to for support to break a likely filibuster, said in a statement that he would not vote to change electoral process before then.
Instead, McDonnell said he believed the legislature should take up the issue in next year's legislative session, which tentatively starts the first week of January 2025.
"In recent weeks, a conversation around whether to change how we allocate our electoral college votes has returned to the forefront," McDonnell said. "I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue. After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/key-nebraska-republican-opposes-trump-effort-change-states/story?id=113937433
