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Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a rally at York Exposition Center UPMC Arena on October 2, 2024, in York, Pennsylvania.During two campaign fundraising events this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, expressed a desire to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a popular vote model for selecting the president — a position he shares with a majority of American voters.
“So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win,” he said.At a campaign event earlier in Seattle, Walz also said he was a “national popular vote guy” but that he understood that’s “not the world we live in.
as a means for him to retake the White House two years after he lost the presidential race to Joe Biden.in the past. On election night in 2012, when it appeared that former President Barack Obama was going to win the Electoral College without securing the popular vote, Trump described the mechanism for selecting the president as being a “disaster for democracy.”
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