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The Ambitions of a Majority
Minnesota governor Tim Walz reiterated his support for abolishing the Electoral College and switching to a national popular vote as the sole means of electing presidents and their running mates.
While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris on the West Coast, Walz suggested at two different fundraisers that he would prefer to focus on winning votes across the country rather than concentrate on key battleground states that could sway the upcoming presidential election as they have done in the past.
“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in,” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told donors in California governor Gavin Newsom’s Sacramento home.
Last year, the governor signed legislation that added Minnesota as the seventeenth state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The initiative commits participating states to award their electoral votes to presidential candidates who win the popular vote and takes effect once states representing 270 electoral votes have joined the compact.
The Harris campaign said Walz’s call for abolishing the Electoral College is not an official campaign position.
Despite the campaign’s statement, Harris has said she’s “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College.
“There’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that, so I’m open to the discussion,” she told late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel in 2019 when she was running for president.
Though it appears a radical position, a recent Pew Research Center survey found 63 percent of Americans supporting the move away from the Electoral College toward a popular vote system. By contrast, 35 percent said they would favor retaining the Electoral College.
The issue is further divided along partisan lines. Eighty percent of Democrats prefer to see the Electoral College changed, while Republicans are more closely divided on the issue: 46 percent say it should be changed compared to 53 percent backing the current electoral system.
Minnesota governor Tim Walz reiterated his support for abolishing the Electoral College and switching to a national popular vote as the sole means of electing presidents and their running mates.
While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris on the West Coast, Walz suggested at two different fundraisers that he would prefer to focus on winning votes across the country rather than concentrate on key battleground states that could sway the upcoming presidential election as they have done in the past.
“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in,” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told donors in California governor Gavin Newsom’s Sacramento home.
Last year, the governor signed legislation that added Minnesota as the seventeenth state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The initiative commits participating states to award their electoral votes to presidential candidates who win the popular vote and takes effect once states representing 270 electoral votes have joined the compact.
The Harris campaign said Walz’s call for abolishing the Electoral College is not an official campaign position.
Despite the campaign’s statement, Harris has said she’s “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College.
“There’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that, so I’m open to the discussion,” she told late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel in 2019 when she was running for president.
Though it appears a radical position, a recent Pew Research Center survey found 63 percent of Americans supporting the move away from the Electoral College toward a popular vote system. By contrast, 35 percent said they would favor retaining the Electoral College.
The issue is further divided along partisan lines. Eighty percent of Democrats prefer to see the Electoral College changed, while Republicans are more closely divided on the issue: 46 percent say it should be changed compared to 53 percent backing the current electoral system.
Neither Waltz nor Harris seem to be incisive political thinkers. As such, they may well represent the electorate they hope to lead. One might argue that such a shift in opinion betrays a growing misunderstanding of the very basics of the country's republic nature, with all the anti-democracy caution it implies. But it may not mean it can be corrected by education; it may mean the electorate is changing. As is the electorate's vision of the nation.
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