‘Could Be The Difference’: Lindsey Graham Urges Nebraska To Help Trump and Change Electoral Vote Law Weeks Ahead of Election

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called for Nebraska to change the law about how it allocates its electoral votes ahead of the 2024 election, which is now just weeks away. Graham made the remarks while on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend when he pressed on the topic by host Kristen Welker.

“It is a very close election. 63 days ago, Chuck Schumer led a coup to overthrow Joe Biden and is telling me or any other Republican what we should be doing. If they change the law in Nebraska, it won’t be under on the phone in the middle of the night. It will be through a democratic process,” Graham said during the conversation, adding:

The entire federal delegation of Nebraska, House members and two senators want this change. To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president or not. And she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.

Welker pushed back, “I hear you calling it a coup. Of course, Democrats have the right to change who is at the top of the ticket.”

“So does Nebraska,” shot back Graham before Welker moved on to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East.

Graham met with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) last week to discuss the last-minute electoral change. “As I have consistently made clear, I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” Pillen said in a Friday statement, adding:

As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election.

Only Nebraska and Maine allot an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district and the two remaining votes to the winner of the state overall. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won Nebraska’s Omaha-centered 2nd Congressional District, while Donald Trump picked up a vote in a rural Maine district.

Maine’s Democrat-dominated leadership had vowed to change their system if Nebraska moved ahead with the change to help Trump win all the state’s electoral votes. However, Maine law requires a 90-day period for state legislation to take effect. Critics have noted that the Nebraska GOP appears to have waited until the last-minute to make their move so that Maine could not match it.

Watch the clip above via NBC News.