New Mexico has become the 14th state to join a campaign pledging to award its electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in future presidential elections if enough states sign on.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a response to Hillary Clinton's winning the popular vote of the 2016 presidential election but denied the White House by the Electoral College.
Clinton won the popular vote by over 3 million votes, but Trump took the prize with 306 electoral votes versus Hillary's 232.
So far, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state and the District of Columbia have all joined the movement.
According to CNN, "states would not shift their vote allocations until their combined electoral votes equal 270, enough to decide a presidential election."
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