MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Slams Founding Fathers For Electoral College in ‘Voter Suppression’ Rant as Trump Looks Strong

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell categorized the Electoral College as a form of voter suppression on Tuesday night as the odds of a second Trump presidency appeared very strong during his network’s election coverage.

Following a map breakdown of Pennsylvania by MSNBC numbers guru Steve Korncacki, O’Donnell bemoaned the attention battleground states get during elections.

“I would like to issue an apology to all of those states we have not mentioned,” he said. “It is not our fault, it is the founding fathers, they decided on this thing called the Electoral College. Which interestingly, no other country in the world decided to copy,” O’Donnell added:

Because of that, in presidential terms, in effect on nights like this, you have a right to think that it feels like no one cares about your vote. If you are in California or if you’re in New York, and when you think about how enormous a force that can be in voter suppression, there may be nothing quite like it. Imagine if California voters ever got to think that their votes for president mattered. There are seven million people in California who don’t vote, they are registered, they don’t vote today.

O’Donnell concluded that millions of Americans in other states ultimately choose to sit on the sidelines because they see elections called before they can vote.

He concluded, “Most of those, if they voted, would add millions to Kamala Harris. This Electoral College problem is one that bedevils us in the 21st Century as it never has before.”

O’Donnell made the comments just before 8 p.m. ET when numerous election forecasters theorized former Presdient Donald Trump was favored to win a second term.

Watch above via MSNBC.