A former Democratic presidential nominee is calling for the Electoral College to be abolished after Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but still lost to Donald Trump.
Michael Dukakis, who lost to George H.W. Bush in 1988, told Politico that the Electoral College “should have been abolished 150 years ago.”
“Hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes. So how come she isn’t going to the White House in January?” he said.
Trump won the presidency and is currently ahead of Clinton by 62 Electoral College votes, but Clinton is reportedly about 700,000 votes ahead of Trump in the popular vote, with more still to be counted.
Dukakis called on Democrats to make ending the Electoral College a priority during President Obama’s remaining time in office.
Dukakis lost both the popular vote (48,886,097 to 41,809,074) and the Electoral College vote (426 to 111) to Bush in 1988.
Trump himself previously thought the system had outlived its usefulness.
“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,” he tweeted following the 2012 election.
