Ranked choice voting is not a difficult concept. Advocates consider it a better way to conduct elections because it allows voters to rank candidates by preference, and if no candidate gets 50% in the first round of voting, the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated, and those voters will have their ballots counted for their second-choice candidate; the process continues until there is a winner.
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However, Donald Trump doesn’t seem to know how ranked voting works. Ranked voting has served voters well in red-state Alaska, but Trump has a problem with it and decided to rant to reporters about how, in his view, a very Democratic process is “crooked.”
Trump was asked, “ There’s another close election that’s happening out in Alaska, as Senator Sullivan is in a tight race… Do you, do you anticipate actually traveling out to Alaska to help him out?”
The president answered:
That means you’re gonna have to go with me. Yeah, I do. Yeah. I’ll go out there to fight for him. Just to show you how crooked the Democrats are, first of all, they have ranked choice, which is a, which is a crooked form of voting. It’s totally dishonest.
Trump continued off on a wild bender.