As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

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    No, you get a number of votes equal to your total representatives in Congress, so it’s a compromise between population size and statehood, as the House is based on population and every state gets two votes in the Senate.

    The problem is that the votes are really electors. The specifics of that get beyond ELI5 because it’s largely up to the states individually but in general whoever wins the popular vote of a state is supposed to get all of their votes.

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      And to quickly expand on that with my little knowledge (I haven’t confirmed this yet), states can decide to throw all of their electors for one candidate if that state gets a majority in the electorate.