A weakening but still tremendously powerful Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida’s west coast on Wednesday night as a category 3 storm, leaving nearly 3 million homes without power, while bringing “catastrophic” winds likely to cause significant property damage. Nearly 3m homes and businesses in Florida were without power. “I think all of us know, the electoral college needs to go,” Walz told party fundraisers in California. A president can win the electoral college while losing the popular vote, notably in recent times George W Bush in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016. Campaign officials said abolishing the electoral college was not part of its agenda.
