Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz branched out from Kamala Harris ‘ campaign’s position Tuesday when he called for the end of the Electoral College.
“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote,” he said at a California fundraiser. A campaign official denied that is part of Harris’ platform.
There have been more than 700 federal proposals to change or abolish the Electoral College in U.S. history, according to the University of California at Berkeley . The most recent push to move away from the Electoral College is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact , which has been agreed on by 17 states and the District of Columbia.
But getting the remaining states to drop the Electoral College system in favor of the popular vote may be prohibitively difficult, as it would require buy-in from states that benefit from the system.
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