HARRIS: Open to Abolishing the Electoral College
Harris has stated that she is “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,” she says, “so I’m open to the discussion.”
WALZ: Opponent of the Electoral College
In 2023, Gov. Walz signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement in which he pledged that Minnesota would join all other willing states in allocating all of their respective Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate won the national popular vote – regardless of whether that candidate received the most votes within his or her state. The Compact never took effect, however, because it did not garner support from enough states.
In a video that was posted to YouTube in August2024, Walz said, “[T]he Electoral College seems very undemocratic to me.”
During a political fundraiser in California on October 7, 2024, Walz said: “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in.”