Harris campaign does not back changes to electoral college – report
While Tim Walz has made clear he is no fan of the electoral college, switching the country’s system for electing presidents to a national popular vote is not a position Kamala Harris’s campaign is taking, Politico reports.
“Governor 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,” a Harris-Walz campaign spokesman said in response to Walz’s comments yesterday calling for the adoption of a national popular vote.
As governor of Minnesota, Walz last year signed into law legislation that made the state part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, whose members pledge to give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Eighteen states have signed the compact so far, though it it only goes into effect once states whose electoral votes total 270 sign it.