Tim Walz, speaking at a fundraiser in California, said, “I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go.” I don’t suppose he expected that comment to be controversial. It is a commonly-held view among Democrats, who have adopted the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” a back-door method of abolishing the Electoral College, in a number of states. Tim Walz signed it into law in Minnesota last year.
Democrats want to do away with the Electoral College and adopt a new system for electing presidents because they are at a disadvantage–their voters are heavily concentrated in a few states. If it were the other way around, they would be telling us how vital the Electoral College is to Our Democracy™️.
In fact, the method of electing presidents is central to the Constitution and the entire federalist structure of the USA. We are the United States of America, not the United 330 Million Inhabitants of America. Under the Constitution, states decide how their presidential electors will be selected, and states do it differently.
No doubt Kamala Harris agrees with Walz about the Electoral College, but she needs to carry states that would become irrelevant under the Democrats’ preferred system. So the problem with Walz’s remark wasn’t that it was constitutionally illiterate, it was that it was impolitic. So the Harris campaign immediately disowned it:
In a statement provided to CBS News, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign said Walz “believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support for the Harris-Walz ticket. He was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes. And, he was thanking them for their support that is helping fund those efforts.”
Getting rid of the Electoral College is not a position the campaign holds, a campaign official said.
Count every vote in the Electoral College! That evidently is the Democrats’ new slogan.
It has been obvious from Day One that Tim Walz was not ready for prime time, but his reputation for ineptitude has gotten to be such that every incident like this one is tied into his self-described “knucklehead” persona. Thus, Democrat-friendly CBS News adds:
The comment from Walz, and the swift clarification, comes just days after he told Bill Whitaker on “60 Minutes” that his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, said he needs to be more careful when he speaks.
Since being thrust into the national spotlight, the Minnesota governor has faced scrutiny about his misrepresentations of his military status regarding when he retired from the Army National Guard as well as his whereabouts when pro-democracy protests broke out in China and Hong Kong in 1989.
That doesn’t even scratch the surface of Walz’s misrepresentations, but we will leave it there for now.
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