Donald Trump Flip-Flops on Electoral College, Again

The president-elect again dislikes a thing he called “genius” last week and a “disaster” in 2012

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President-elect Donald Trump is against the electoral college, again.

Trump, who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote to beat Hillary Clinton, tweeted in 2012 that the electoral college was “a disaster for a democracy.” He changed his tune when he won because of the electoral college, tweeting, “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play.”

On Tuesday, in a meeting with the New York Times, he changed his mind again, saying he could win the popular vote if that’s what it took.

“I’d rather do the popular vote,” Trump said, according to the Times’ Maggie Haberman.

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