How can Trump or Harris win? Breaking down the Electoral College scenarios

When it comes to the Electoral College, the idea of one person, one vote doesn’t really hold true. The system has been in use since 1787. The basics: each state is assigned a number of votes based on population and the total of those votes for the candidates decides the winner. Out of 50 states and the District of Columbia, each has a winner-take-all approach except for Maine (4 electoral votes) and Nebraska (5 electoral votes). In those two states, all of those electoral votes can go to one candidate or, like in 2020, can be split (Trump got 4 votes from Nebraska while the Democrats eked out 1; in Maine, Biden took 3 votes to Trump’s 1).