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Democrats Push to Bypass Electoral College by 2028
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In Short: Democrats have recently gained control of key state legislatures, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada, which could push the compact beyond the 270-vote threshold.
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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, already approved by 18 states and the District of Columbia, aims to award electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, regardless of state-by-state results.
As of now, the compact has 222 electoral votes pledged to it, 48 short of the 270 needed to take effect.
A YouGov poll from June 2026 showed that 56% of adults support electing the president by popular vote rather than the Electoral College.
Patrick Rosenstiel, a senior consultant for NPV, expressed confidence in securing the remaining 48 electoral votes needed for the compact to take effect by July 20, 2028.
Democrats have recently gained control of key state legislatures, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada, which could push the compact beyond the 270-vote threshold.
Despite these obstacles, Democrats are moving forward with their plans to bypass the Electoral College and increase the power of high-population blue states such as California and New York.
What's confirmed
- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, already approved by 18 states and the District of Columbia, aims to award electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, regardless of state-by-state results.
- As of now, the compact has 222 electoral votes pledged to it, 48 short of the 270 needed to take effect.
- A YouGov poll from June 2026 showed that 56% of adults support electing the president by popular vote rather than the Electoral College.
- Patrick Rosenstiel, a senior consultant for NPV, expressed confidence in securing the remaining 48 electoral votes needed for the compact to take effect by July 20, 2028.
- Democrats have recently gained control of key state legislatures, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada, which could push the compact beyond the 270-vote threshold.
- Despite these obstacles, Democrats are moving forward with their plans to bypass the Electoral College and increase the power of high-population blue states such as California and New York.
What's still developing
- “It’s a very real possibility that enough states join this compact,” he said.
- Rosenstiel said the compact would apply to the 2028 election only if states representing at least 270 electoral votes join before July 20 of that year.
- 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.
- After the midterm elections, the Democrats are moving in for the kill.