It would have been the best possible chance of an amendment passing.
I do wonder what would happen if the Republican Hispanic and Democratic Inland West trends continued and DeSantis lost the EC while winning the PV in 2024 or (more reasonably) 2028?
Until Republicans can bring California and Illinois back to single digit margins, and New York and other northeastern states to the teens; they are not going to win the popular vote.
Trump lost by about 30% in California in 2016 and the national popular vote by about 2. Without being bothered to do the arithmetic, he might have eeked out the popular vote if he had kept California to a 20-point margin and New York and Illinois to a few percent closer.
