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Democrats Move Closer to Bypassing Electoral College
· Confirmed
In Short: Democrats are pushing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which could take effect if enough states join to reach 270 electoral votes.
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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would award electoral votes to the national popular vote winner regardless of state results, has already been approved by 18 states and the District of Columbia, totaling 222 electoral votes.
According to Patrick Rosenstiel, a senior consultant for NPV, the compact needs 48 more electoral votes to take effect, a goal he believes is within reach.
A YouGov poll from June 2026 showed that 56% of adults support electing the president by popular vote rather than the Electoral College.
If these states join the compact, their combined 50 electoral votes would push the total to 272, activating the compact.
The compact would only take effect if states representing at least 270 electoral votes join before July 20, 2028.
Supporters of the compact argue that it would prevent scenarios like the 2021 certification of electoral votes, where a violent mob attempted to stop the certification process.
What's confirmed
- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would award electoral votes to the national popular vote winner regardless of state results, has already been approved by 18 states and the District of Columbia, totaling 222 electoral votes.
- According to Patrick Rosenstiel, a senior consultant for NPV, the compact needs 48 more electoral votes to take effect, a goal he believes is within reach.
- A YouGov poll from June 2026 showed that 56% of adults support electing the president by popular vote rather than the Electoral College.
- If these states join the compact, their combined 50 electoral votes would push the total to 272, activating the compact.
- The compact would only take effect if states representing at least 270 electoral votes join before July 20, 2028.
- Supporters of the compact argue that it would prevent scenarios like the 2021 certification of electoral votes, where a violent mob attempted to stop the certification process.
What's still developing
- “It’s a very real possibility that enough states join this compact,” he said.
- A quick gander at left-leaning media today shows more than a little exuberance for obliterating the Electoral College—seen as impediment step toward securing the Left’s permanent power— once and for all.
- Moreover, Trump’s attempt to hold onto power on January 6, 2021 by sending a violent mob to stop the certification of the electoral votes could never have happened if the president were chosen by a simple majority.
- There are currently 538 electors in the Electoral College; presidents win with a simple majority of 270 electors.
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- And somehow, despite this flagrant lawlessness, he had won more convincingly than ever before, winning not only the Electoral College but also, for the first time, the popular vote, thanks in part to unprecedented gains with Black, Latino, and young voters, particularly men.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is standing against Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential race Brazil’s president is directly elected: each voter’s ballot counts equally and there is no electoral college.
- Harris urged Democrats to pursue changes such as expanding the Supreme Court, granting statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and reconsidering the Electoral College.
- While the plan faces likely legal challenges, such changes would affect the population numbers used to determine each state's share of representatives in Congress and votes in the Electoral College, redraw maps of voting districts for all levels of government and distribute federal funding for public services.
- Once a critic of the college, I began to change my own views years ago while writing Rage and the Republic and exploring the growing challenges to our constitutional system.
- The Democrats know that they are unlikely to attain a veto-proof majority.
- After the midterm elections, the Democrats are moving in for the kill.