Headline Roundup • October 9th, 2024
Walz Calls for the Elimination of the Electoral College
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Tuesday, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for the elimination of the Electoral College.
Key Details: During a fundraiser at California Gov. Gavin Newsom's home, Walz advocated for a national popular vote that would focus on winning votes from across the country.
Key Quotes: "I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go," Walz said. "We need a national popular vote, but that's not the world we live in." The Trump Campaign responded, “Why does Tampon Tim hate the Constitution so much? He hates the First Amendment. He hates the Supreme Court. He hates the Electoral College." A spokesperson for Walz 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."
For Context: The Electoral College was established by the Founding Fathers as a way to ensure that large states didn't dominate small ones in presidential elections. Eliminating it would require a change to Article II of the U.S. Constitution. Walz has voiced this position in the past, signing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in 2023.
How the Media Covered it: Fox News (Right bias) noted that a recent Pew Research Center poll showed that 63% of Americans favor doing away with the Electoral College. The New York Times (Lean Left bias) noted that Walz's position is not one of the Harris Campaign.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser in California, a move some Democrats have advocated for in the past after election defeats.
Walz was in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's private home in Sacramento when he remarked about the process by which U.S. presidents are elected.
"I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go," he said, according to a pool report at the event, Bloomberg reported. "We need a national popular vote, but that's not the world we...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops.
Walz mentioned the concept during fundraisers in Seattle and in Sacramento, Calif., while talking to donors in the deep blue areas.
“And we know, because of our system of the Electoral College, that puts a few states in real focus,” Walz said in Seattle. “I’m a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
In Sacramento later in the day, he was...
Kent Nishimura for The New York Times
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Tuesday called for abolishing the Electoral College as a means of electing American presidents, reiterating a position he has articulated in the past while he and Vice President Kamala Harris are in the heat of a campaign for the White House.
Twice during campaign fund-raisers on the West Coast, Mr. Walz said he would prefer that presidential candidates did not have to focus on a few political battlegrounds and could instead focus on winning votes from across the country.
“I think all of us...
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