A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move.

GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district.

McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off a change ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

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    11 hours ago

    At no point did the person you replied to mention anything about “recently” or “lately” or how any of this is new/news to them. In fact, they mentioned how often it has happened. Yet you told them to wake the fuck up because you didn’t think they had noticed it before.

    Maybe you should wake the fuck up and learn how to read.

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      9 hours ago

      dude’s mad at the world. always posting inflammatory shit

      meh- at least he’s on the right team