{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-introduces-resolution-abolish-electoral-college-0", "Congressman Cohen Introduces Resolution to Abolish the Electoral College", "2024-12-12", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", "cohen", "https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today reintroduced a joint resolution to amend the Constitution by abolishing the Electoral College. The archaic vestige of a compromise with pro-slavery Southerners during the 18th century debate over the U.S. Constitution, the Electoral College can \u2013 and has, as recently as 2016 \u2013 thwarted the will of the American people by installing as president the loser of the popular vote.\n\nCongressman Cohen made the following statement:\n\n\u201cAmericans expect and deserve to see the winner of the national popular vote for any elected office assume the office as its legitimate winner. The Electoral College is a vestige of the 18th Century when voters didn\u2019t know the candidates. Today, Presidential candidates are widely known and regularly appear on Americans\u2019 phones and television screens. It is also a relic of a time when pro-slavery Southerners debating the Constitution in 1787 sought and gained electoral strength by counting ineligible, non-voting enslaved people as part of their state populations.\n\n\u201cThe President should be elected by the people, not politicians. We must count every vote, and every vote should be counted equally.\n\n\u201cWhile there is so much wrong in incoming President Trump\u2019s Electoral College Truth Social post, one thing is true: it is long past time to abolish this anachronistic institution and guarantee that the winner of the popular vote takes office. I welcome President Trump\u2019s support for a national popular vote and encourage Republicans to follow his lead and support this Amendment.\u201d\n\nOn December 9, 2024, Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social that \u201cThe Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections. They want all future Presidential elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!\u201d\n\nCongressman Cohen, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, has introduced similar joint resolutions in 2021 and 2019.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-introduces-resolution-abolish-electoral-college-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.484012696892023, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}