This commentary was written by Rudi Mwongozi and shared with GrassrootsWire.

I don't know what kind of president Vice President Kamala Harris would make but she isn't the greatest candidate for the Electoral College system we have in America. That was proven in 2020 when her candidacy didn't reach the first primary. 

If the election were truly an election, this would be an entirely different conversation because an election is where the candidate who gets the most votes wins. If the candidate who got the most votes won, Hillary Clinton would have been elected in 2016 and she would undoubtedly be finishing her second term by now.

However, it's not an election in the truest form, it's a contest. Also, the United States is not a democracy. It's a representative constitutional republic. The candidate who wins the best combination of states that amount to the most electoral votes wins the presidential election. This means a candidate can win the best combination of states and win the presidency without getting the most votes from the electorate, also known as the American people.

For those unfamiliar with the Electoral College process. Each state is allocated a number of electors equal to its total congressional representatives. So if you get the most votes in a state you get all of that state's electoral votes. The exception to this rule are the states of Maine and Nebraska. 

The effect of this is that presidential election turns into a contest rather than an election. Donald Trump of who starred in The Apprentice, a popular reality show, was better at competing in this contest than Hillary Clinton was. So, Trump won the contest. If winning an election means getting the most votes, than Trump has yet to win an election but he won the contest in 2016.

Democrats have talked about trying to repeal the amendment that created the Electoral College, an anachronism left over from when there were slaves holding states, but every time they have had a chance to try to circumvent the Electoral College system they failed to attempt to. 

In truth it's too much work to change. It would require a two third vote in both federal houses of Congress then has to be ratified by three fourths of all the state legislatures. It would be a massive undertaking that  no one in the United States has the patience or energy for. So for the time being and foreseeable future we are stuck with the Electoral College system. 

That means Trump is favored to win because he seems to be ahead in all the so called "swing states." I know some of you have no interest in hearing that Trump is ahead or has a good chance of winning. 

But Harris is not doing a great job of making her case with independent voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. Let's add Arizona and Nevada in there. Harris needs to carry four of those seven states to win the Electoral College. 

She is likely but not guaranteed to win the popular vote because massive cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, Portland and Seattle are inevitably going to vote majority Democrat. So the Republicans want to hold on to the Electoral College for dear life because it would be very difficult for them to win the presidency without it.

We have less than one day until Election day and it's still too close to call.

This is the author's opinion, not GrassrootsWire's.