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 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.

Republican officials in Nebraska are eyeing what is effectively an electoral vote heist in the campaign’s final weeks. The consequences could be dramatic.

On Wednesday, five Nebraska Republican members of Congress wrote to Governor Jim Pillen and Speaker of the Legislature John Arch to push for the change. They said: "We need a Pres

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,

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