why did the founders decide to use the electoral college to elect the president rather than allowing congress or the people to directly elect the president? PLEASE HELP

Because, of the number of votes that were coming in. It made things easier for the electoral college to elect the president.

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As prescribed in the Us constitution presidents are elected not BY THE PEOPLE but by the peoples electors the electoral college was created by the farmers of the Us constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by congress

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this headline suggests that midterm congressional   elections are at the corner and trump administration wants to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immigrants and immigration as trump had said during his election campaign around two years ago. when a baby is born in usa, the baby becomes citizen of usa for 85 years and trump wants to end this rule of birthright citizenship to control illegal immigration and this what he said in an interview""we’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years, with all of those benefits,” "