Tim Walz calls for elimination of Electoral College at California fundraiser, says 'it needs to go'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser successful California, a determination immoderate Democrats person advocated for successful the past aft predetermination defeats. 

Walz was successful California Gov. Gavin Newsom's backstage location successful Sacramento erstwhile helium remarked astir the process by which U.S. presidents are elected.  

"I deliberation each of america cognize the Electoral College needs to go," helium said, according to a excavation study astatine the event, Bloomberg reported. "We request a nationalist fashionable vote, but that's not the satellite we unrecorded in."

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Democrat vice statesmanlike campaigner Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for the elimination of the Electoral College. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In 2023, the Minnesota politician signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an statement successful which each authorities would allocate each its electoral votes to whoever wins the fashionable ballot for president, careless of however idiosyncratic states voted. The compact would instrumentality effect lone if supporters unafraid pledges from states with astatine slightest 270 electoral votes. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the campaigns of Vice President Harris and former President Trump. 

The Electoral College comprises a definite fig of electors from each authorities who formed votes for the president and vice president. In 48 states and Washington, D.C., whichever campaigner receives the astir ballots successful their favour is awarded each the electoral votes for that state. Maine and Nebraska delegate their electors utilizing a proportional system.

The victor needs 270 electoral votes to triumph the statesmanlike election. 

The Electoral College was created by the Founding Fathers successful an effort to marque definite ample states didn't predominate tiny ones successful statesmanlike elections oregon wield excessively overmuch power. Abolishing the strategy would necessitate a large law change. 

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People get to formed their ballot during the aboriginal voting. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In caller years, some Democrats person called for eliminating the process successful favour of a popular vote. Recent examples cited see erstwhile President Trump's 2016 triumph implicit Hillary Clinton, successful which she won the fashionable ballot but received less electoral votes. 

In 2000, erstwhile President George W. Bush mislaid the fashionable ballot but narrowly won the electoral vote. Many Republicans person argued against getting escaped of the Electoral College system, saying specified a determination would effect successful states with larger populations having undue influence.

Others reason it would origin statesmanlike candidates to absorption connected a fewer states during the run play portion ignoring others.

In 2012, Trump panned the electoral system, calling it "a catastrophe for a democracy." In 2018, helium again voiced enactment for the thought due to the fact that a fashionable ballot would beryllium "much easier to win."

Tim Walz during a "60 Minutes" interview (Screenshot/CBS News)

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A bulk of Americans – 63% – favour doing distant with the Electoral College, according to a caller Pew Research Center canvass released past month.