Republican lawmakers in Nebraska didn’t have the votes needed to change the law that could help Trump win the election.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said it's "very reasonable" for Nebraska to push for a change to its electoral vote system because the election could come down to a single electoral vote.

Nebraska is one of two states that award some of its electoral votes by congressional district. A vote from the Omaha area is part of Harris’s easiest path to victory.

Donald Trump believes he will win four electoral votes from Nebraska, but it’s the fifth one that he is increasingly fretting about – leading the former president and his Republican allies to mount a last-ditch effort to try and change state election law only weeks before ballots are cast.

A single Republican state senator appears to be holding back a push by Donald J. Trump to net a potentially pivotal electoral vote even before ballots are cast.

Nebraska's split-vote electoral system, which the Democrat-leaning Maine also uses, came into effect in 1991, with the state facing multiple attempts to repeal it since. The current proposal was introduced in 2023 by Senator Loren Lippincott.

Trump's allies want the state to move to a winner-take-all system for its Electoral College votes to make it harder for Harris to win.

Republicans in Nebraska are trying to change a critical part of the state’s electoral process, which could have significant effects on the presidential election. The change, a switch from a system that awards electoral votes by congressional districts to a more traditional winner-take-all system,