Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a national popular vote during a fundraiser in California.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser in California, a move some Democrats have advocated for in the past after election defeats. Walz was in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's private home in Sacramento when he remarked about the process by which U.S. presidents are elected. 'I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go,' he said, according to a pool report at the event, Bloomberg reported.
Maine and Nebraska assign their electors using a proportional system. The winner needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election. The Electoral College was created by the Founding Fathers in an effort to make sure large states didn't dominate small ones in presidential elections or wield too much power. Abolishing the system would require a major constitutional change.
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