With Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> presiding, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> certified President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and Vice President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a>&#8216;s victory in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a> on Monday.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> received the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/electoral-college" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electoral College</a> votes in less than an hour with the reading of certificates from the states and D.C. The GOP ticket won 312 of them.
&#8220;CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAGA!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113781668884628397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclaimed</a> in a post to Truth Social.
Harris, who lost the presidential election, <a href="https://x.com/rcpvideo/status/1876289653780676679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watched</a> over the proceedings as president of the Senate. It was Harris who ultimately declared the final tally and the winners.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> Kamala Harris: &quot;This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States, each for a term beginning on the 20th day of January 2025.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ePBAZ9i08q">pic.twitter.com/ePBAZ9i08q</a>
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&#8220;This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president,&#8221; she said.
Members of Congress made their way to the U.S. Capitol despite a storm that dropped several inches of snow, causing closures throughout the D.C. region.
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Boxes containing Electoral College Certificates on their way to the U.S. House Chamber. <a href="https://t.co/oVAnMGasdt">pic.twitter.com/oVAnMGasdt</a>
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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/with-snow-blast-imminent-speaker-johnson-says-we-cannot-delay-certification-of-trumps-victory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; interview on Fox News that lawmakers would be &#8220;making sure&#8221; to get the job done.
&#8220;President Trump had a mandate — a landslide, you know — so many electoral votes and we get to count them all. We cannot delay that certification,&#8221; he said.
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There were increased <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1876287299773690158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">security measures</a>, including <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1876289563636945303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more barriers</a> and law enforcement, after the Capitol riot briefly disrupted the count four years ago.
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Extra security including law enforcement from outside DC on Capitol Hill today for the Joint Session of Congress to count electoral votes in the House chamber. <a href="https://t.co/6viMeop4lZ">pic.twitter.com/6viMeop4lZ</a>
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Unlike in 2020, no lawmakers objected to any of the state&#8217;s election results. Some Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-dems-wont-confirm-if-theyll-certify-trump-victory-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had previously been dodgy</a> on whether they would oppose certification.
An <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/politics/congress-legislation-january-6-capitol-attack/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overhaul</a> of the Electoral College Act in 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-democrats-unveil-plan-to-change-electoral-count-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made it harder</a> for lawmakers to raise objections and established that the vice president could not settle these disputes.
Trump, who served his first term from 2016 to 2020, is scheduled to begin his second administration in two weeks with Inauguration Day on January 20.
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Sen. JD Vance following Maine electoral results being read. <a href="https://t.co/NwhuU3KfSI">pic.twitter.com/NwhuU3KfSI</a>
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vance</a> (R-OH) is slated to become vice president. Ohio GOP Governor Mike DeWine will <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2024/11/07/ohio-senate-jd-vance-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appoint</a> Vance&#8217;s Senate successor until a special election in 2026.
Republicans narrowly retained the House and won command of the Senate. In the coming months, they plan to get a fast start on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-big-beautiful-bill-speaker-johnson-draws-out-budget-reconciliation-plan-for-trump-2-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implementing Trump&#8217;s agenda</a>.

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In yet another attempt to impede Donald Trump from gaining the presidency, on Thursday, The Hill ran an <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5055171-constitution-insurrection-trump-disqualification/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> by two lawyers, one of whom had served as president of the New York City Bar, in which they urged Congress to reject the Electoral College vote in order to stop Donald Trump from being inaugurated as president.
Evan Davis, who once served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and later served as counsel to New York Democrat governor Mario Cuomo, and David Schulte, who had served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, later became a friend and <a href="https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/felsenthal-files/august-2013/schulte/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial supporter</a> of Barack Obama, and is now an investment banker, quoted the 14th Amendment, which states:
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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
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“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government,” the authors write. “The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump’s counsel.”
The authors cite Trump’s second impeachment trial, in which Democrats sought to impeach Trump just before he left office. After the House passed the article of impeachment, citing “incitement of insurrection,” on January 13, 2021, by a 232–197 vote, with all 222 Democrats voting in favor, an argument ensued over whether the Senate, which was in pro forma sessions until January 19, could take on the matter. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi transmitted the article of impeachment to the Senate on January 25, five days after Trump had left office. Supporters of the impeachment argued that the Constitution permitted disqualification from holding future office. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on February 13; 57 senators voted in favor of conviction and 43 voted against.
The authors then cite “the Colorado five-day judicial due process hearing where the court ‘found by clear and convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in insurrection as those terms are used in Section Three.’” After the verdict was affirmed by the Colorado Supreme Court, it was sent on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did “not address the finding that Trump had engaged in insurrection,” the authors admitted.
The authors finally cite the House Select Committee that investigated January 6. They argue that evidence from witnesses leads to “the inescapable conclusion &#8230; that Trump engaged in insurrection against the Constitution.”
The authors cite the amended Electoral Act stating that one ground for objection to an electoral vote is if a vote of one or more electors was not “regularly given.” They then offer this supposition: “A vote for a candidate disqualified by the Constitution is plainly in accordance with the normal use of words ‘not regularly given.’ Disqualification for engaging in insurrection is no different from disqualification based on other constitutional requirements such as age, citizenship from birth and 14 years’ residency in the United States.”
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To make an objection under the Count Act requires a petition signed by 20 percent of the members of each House. If the objection is sustained by majority vote in each house, the vote is not counted and the number of votes required to be elected is reduced by the number of disqualified votes. If all votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president. 
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Tim Walz, the now-forgotten nominee for vice president, infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-calls-for-the-electoral-college-to-be-abolished-we-need-a-national-popular-vote">said</a> on the campaign trail, “I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote.”
In 2023, Walz signed legislation adding Minnesota to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). While it hasn’t taken effect, 17 blue states have joined the anti-Electoral College plan.
But why wait? Walz and others who want a national popular vote should act now to give their state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump. If NPV states followed through, Trump would receive 520 electoral votes. Harris would get 18.
The <a href="https://www.electoralcollege101.com/">Electoral College</a> was designed by the American Founders to keep states in charge. It makes presidential elections a two-step, state-based democratic process. This creates important checks and balances. It limits how much power any one state or region can have, which spreads power out across our vast country. It also contains any election problems within individual states, reducing lawsuits and eliminating the possibility of a nationwide recount.
The <a href="https://saveourstates.com/electoral-college/what-is-national-popular-vote">NPV compact</a> is an attempt to undo all this without amending the Constitution. How is this possible? It takes advantage of the power that state legislatures have to decide how presidential electors are selected. Right now, state laws say that voters within each state elect their state’s presidential electors — that’s what last Tuesday was about. The NPV compact would change state laws so that presidential electors are chosen based on nationwide vote totals.
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18053715">Maryland</a> was the first state to join NPV, in 2007, when it was sponsored by then-Delegate Jamie Raskin. Other blue states have followed, including California in 2011, New York in 2014, and <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2024/04/maine-house-narrowly-approves-national-popular-vote-after-dem-lawmakers-leave-chamber-before-roll-call/">Maine</a> just this year. Together, NPV states have <a href="https://saveourstates.com/electoral-college/the-status-of-npv">209 electoral votes</a>. Yet the compact only takes effect if joined by enough states that they control a majority — 270 electoral votes.
The reason for this “trigger” is not clear. If the compact is legal, then individual states must have the power to give away electors unilaterally. And why not, if they really believe in a national popular vote?
If <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/walz-versus-the-electoral-college/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walz really wants a national popular vote</a>, he should ask the Minnesota Legislature to put NPV into effect now and add 10 electoral votes to Trump’s total. Gov. Jared Polis in <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2019/03/15/colorado-joins-national-popular-vote-movement-with-gov-jared-polis-signature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a>, who signed his state onto NPV in 2019, could do the same thing. Do these politicians really believe in a national popular vote, or were they just seeking partisan advantage?
Every NPV state went for the Harris-Walz ticket. That means that if they all followed through, they would shift all 209 of their electoral votes to the Republicans. Trump-Vance would win with 520 electoral votes. Harris-Walz would get 18.
Of course, NPV states probably can’t change their rules after the election. Voters in those states favored Harris, and so they will elect Democrat-nominated presidential electors. Of course, if any of those Democrat presidential electors believe the popular vote is the right way to choose the president, they could simply choose to cast their votes for Trump and Vance (depending on whether their state has a law to bind presidential electors).
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That none of this will happen simply exposes the truth: the NPV compact is a partisan ploy. When the sour grapes of Al Gore’s 2000 election loss were pressed, NPV was the sour wine that flowed out. The movement was created and is still run and funded by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/us/politics/22electoral.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Koza</a>, one of Gore’s presidential electors in California. It gained support after 2016, when Trump smashed the blue wall and won the presidency according to the Constitution’s rules but without the popular vote.
The Electoral College rewards whichever party reaches out to build a more national coalition. Trump and Vance did that this year, attracting more support from young and minority voters than Republicans have seen in a generation. Their successful strategy to win the Electoral College has also delivered a popular vote majority.
If blue state legislators aren’t willing to throw their support to Trump, the popular vote winner, there is another course of action they can take: Repeal the National Popular Vote interstate compact, stop trying to manipulate the Electoral College, and focus instead on building coalitions capable of winning future elections.
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Trent England is founder and executive director of <a href="https://saveourstates.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Save Our States</a> and a producer of the film <a href="https://www.safeguard.film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Safeguard: An Electoral College Story</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘National Popular Vote’ States Should Just Give Electoral Votes To Trump

'National Popular Vote' States Should Just Give Electoral Votes To Trump

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There is no doubt that President-elect Donald Trump has won a sweeping victory, becoming only the second U.S. president to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term in one of the most remarkable political comeback stories in American history. But his victory in the Electoral College would’ve been even bigger if two factors hadn’t cheated him out of the additional votes he should have received. 
Why do I say this? Because of the jarring errors the Census Bureau <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/census-bureau-errors-distort-congressional-representation-the-states">admitted</a> it made in its population numbers for multiple states, and its unfair inclusion of aliens in the population used for congressional apportionment. That inclusion <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/09/a-bill-to-ensure-fair-representation-for-american-citizens/">dilutes</a> the votes of U.S. citizens, distorting representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Electoral College. 
Let me explain. 
First, the costly errors. In 2022, the Census Bureau issued a report in which it announced that a post-census survey revealed that its count was wrong in 14 states. It undercounted the populations of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, while overcounting the populations of Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah. The errors ranged from a low of 1.49% to a high of 6.79%. 
Due to these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats it should have gotten, Texas lost out on one additional seat, and Minnesota and Rhode Island each retained a seat they should have lost. Colorado received an additional seat it didn’t deserve. 
Since Trump won Florida and Texas, he should have gotten an additional three Electoral College votes from those states. Kamala Harris should have had three Electoral College votes deducted from her total with her wins in Colorado, Minnesota, and Rhode Island. 
Second, the inclusion of aliens, both legal and illegal, in the population used for apportionment also had a significant effect on the election since they are included in the population used to determine how many votes each state is entitled to in the Electoral College. That’s a major reason why liberals fought so hard to prevent a citizenship question being reinstated on the 2020 Census form; they don’t want the citizen population available for apportionment or redistricting. 
We have had an unprecedented, intentionally engineered influx of illegal aliens in the four years of the Biden-Harris administration—at <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/">least</a> 10 million. But even before this latest population explosion of illegal aliens that has made the problem even worse, the Congressional Research Service in 2015 issued a <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41636.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on what would happen if apportionment were based solely on citizen population. According to the CRS, that would have shifted seven congressional seats. 
Gaining one seat each (with the 2024 winner noted): Louisiana (Trump), Missouri (Trump), Montana (Trump), North Carolina (Trump), Ohio (Trump), Oklahoma (Trump), and Virginia (Harris). California (Harris) would lose four congressional seats and thus four Electoral College Votes. 
How does all of this stack up? If you exclude the alien population from apportionment and the Electoral College as they should be, and correct the Census Bureau’s mistakes, then Donald Trump should have been awarded an additional nine Electoral College votes, while Kamala Harris should have had six votes deducted from her total. 
The final result with these corrections? As this article was being written, Trump had 295 Electoral College votes to Harris’s 226, with Arizona and Nevada still outstanding. But adjusting for the errors and inclusion of aliens means that Trump actually should have won 304 votes and Harris should only have 220 (not including Arizona’s 11 votes and Nevada’s 6 votes). In a close election, even those numbers could make a difference. 
This fundamental injustice ought to be fixed. There is no excuse for what happened at the Census Bureau. It needs a major review of its personnel, procedures and policies, to determine the cause of its mistakes. It did not make this large a substantive error in the 2010 Census, in which the Bureau’s post-census survey disclosed a mere 0.01 percent overcount. 
Second, there should be a concerted push to add a citizenship question to the 2030 Census form and to change the apportionment formula used by the Census Bureau through legislation such as <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Equal Representation Act</a> to exclude “individuals who are not citizens of the United States.” 
The mandate won by Donald Trump in both the Electoral College and in the popular vote gives the president the authority and the support of the American people to do the right thing when it comes to ensuring their franchise and protecting the voting rights of American citizens free from errors and foreign interference.
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Hans von Spakovsky is Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is an authority on a wide range of issues — including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, and immigration.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Minnesota Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> (D) on Thursday bungled his attempt to clean up the fallout from his extreme call this week to end the Electoral College.
During an interview with Michael Strahan on ABC News, Walz was asked about the far-Left position, noting that it was not the position of Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;The point I&#8217;m trying to make is, is that there&#8217;s folks that feel every vote must count in every state,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think the sense some folks feel that&#8217;s not the case. Our campaign does that. And the point I&#8217;m saying is, I&#8217;m in five states in two days. We&#8217;re out there making the case that the campaign&#8217;s position is clear, that that&#8217;s not their position.&#8221;
When asked by Strahan if this was an issue that he and Harris disagreed on, Walz responded in-part: &#8220;The campaign and my position is the campaign&#8217;s position.&#8221;
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ABC: You said you think the Electoral College should be abolished.
WALZ: &#8220;Well it&#8217;s not the campaign&#8217;s position.&#8221;
ABC: So&#8230; that&#8217;s something you and Kamala disagree on?
WALZ: &#8220;Umm&#8230; the campaign and my position is the campaign position.&#8221;
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The controversy started when Walz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-calls-for-the-electoral-college-to-be-abolished-we-need-a-national-popular-vote">said</a> at two campaign fundraisers on Tuesday that the “Electoral College needs to go,” which forced the Harris campaign to release a statement claiming that it does not support abolishing the Constitutional mechanism for presidential elections.
“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote,” Walz told donors at California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Sacramento. “So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win.”
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At an event earlier on Tuesday, Walz told supporters that he is “a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
Following the Minnesota governor’s call for the Electoral College to be abolished, the Harris campaign claimed in a statement, “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,” the statement added.
The Electoral College was established in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, which calls for “Electors” to “meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President.” The system requires presidential candidates to gain support from voters across the U.S. instead of focusing on states and cities with the largest populations.
As governor, Walz has pushed for presidents to be elected by popular vote instead of through the Electoral College. In May of 2023, Walz signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, making Minnesota the 17th state to agree to award its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Walz is not the only Democrat pushing for the end of the Electoral College. After losing the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton argued for electing presidents through a national popular vote. While Clinton won the popular vote against Trump, she lost to the Republican nominee in the Electoral College 227 to 304.
During the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all called for abolishing the Electoral College while on the campaign trail. Harris said in 2019 that she was “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College.
“I mean, there’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that,” Harris said.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz sparked a wave of backlash on Tuesday when he said at a California fundraiser that he&#8217;d like to see the Electoral College <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-calls-for-the-electoral-college-to-be-abolished-we-need-a-national-popular-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolished</a> in favor of a national popular vote.
Walz is the vice presidential candidate on the Democrats&#8217; 2024 ticket — alongside default-presidential candidate Kamala Harris — and he made the comments at a fundraiser in Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s (D-CA) home.
&#8220;New: @Tim_Walz calls for eliminating the Electoral College during a fundraiser at Gavin Newsom&#8217;s private residence in Sacramento. &#8216;I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go,&#8217; per a pool report. &#8216;We need national popular vote, but that&#8217;s not the world we live in,'&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Aaron Pellish reported.
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New: <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a> calls for eliminating the Electoral College during a fundraiser at Gavin Newsom&#39;s private residence in Sacramento. 
&quot;I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go,&quot; per a pool report. &quot;We need national popular vote, but that&#39;s not the world we live in.&quot;
&mdash; Aaron Pellish (@aaronpellish) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronpellish/status/1843778438081196352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics quickly pointed out that the Electoral College was hardly the only beef Walz had with the United States Constitution.
&#8220;Pack the court. Eliminate the EC. Trash the filibuster,&#8221; Washington Examiner writer David Harsanyi posted.
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Pack the court. Eliminate the EC. Trash the filibuster. <a href="https://t.co/i2KEca8Isk">https://t.co/i2KEca8Isk</a>
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1843811106487513098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Supreme Court. The Senate. The First Amendment. And now the Electoral College. The list grows of American constitutional functions the Harris-Walz campaign want to destroy,&#8221; X user @sunnyright added.
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The Supreme Court. 
The Senate. 
The First Amendment. 
And now the Electoral College. 
The list grows of American constitutional functions the Harris-Walz campaign want to destroy. <a href="https://t.co/mVkvXL8GJF">https://t.co/mVkvXL8GJF</a>
&mdash; Sunny (@sunnyright) <a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1843779359909523485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In other words, Walz tells PA, WI, AZ, NC, GA to take a hike. This guy,&#8221; The Blaze&#8217;s Christopher Bedford said.
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In other words, Walz tells PA, WI, AZ, NC, GA to take a hike. This guy. <a href="https://t.co/r8M3FtTXfU">https://t.co/r8M3FtTXfU</a>
&mdash; Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1843802392246329646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Larry O&#8217;Connor added, &#8220;Brainless Tim Walz just told the voters of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that he wants to make their votes utterly meaningless in the future.&#8221;
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Brainless Tim Walz just told the voters of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that he wants to make their votes utterly meaningless in the future. <a href="https://t.co/5AY14WQ0ZP">https://t.co/5AY14WQ0ZP</a>
&mdash; L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1843816279658115512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Oh. Well, we didn&#8217;t agree to that when forming the Union so no,&#8221; Townhall&#8217;s Kurt Schlicter replied.
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Oh. Well, we didn&#39;t agree to that when forming the Union so no. <a href="https://t.co/upNH2Z5DSL">https://t.co/upNH2Z5DSL</a>
&mdash; Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1843802470092550171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign noted that his 2016 rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had issued a similar statement just after she won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.
&#8220;Tampon Tim already setting the stage to delegitimize President Trump’s victory in November. Where have we seen this before?&#8221; the campaign asked.
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Tampon Tim already setting the stage to delegitimize President Trump’s victory in November.
Where have we seen this before? 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/VXbQrEmJ8u">https://t.co/VXbQrEmJ8u</a> <a href="https://t.co/umz3DkD2Qw">pic.twitter.com/umz3DkD2Qw</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1843791502230831529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The electoral college requires more than just regional density to win. It requires a geographical balance. This forces politicians to come to the middle on policy proposals,&#8221; The Federalist correspondent Brianna Lyman explained.
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The electoral college requires more than just regional density to win. It requires a geographical balance. 
This forces politicians to come to the middle on policy proposals <a href="https://t.co/XaP2zu6aWY">https://t.co/XaP2zu6aWY</a>
&mdash; Brianna Lyman (@briannalyman2) <a href="https://twitter.com/briannalyman2/status/1843823543144067513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;1) Walz opposes many parts of the Constitution: the 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Supreme Court, Electoral College. 2) He’s making excuses in advance &amp; writing their campaign obituary. 3) He’s laying the groundwork to question and undermine Trump’s upcoming victory,&#8221; author Tim Murtaugh added.
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1) Walz opposes many parts of the Constitution: the 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Supreme Court, Electoral College.
2) He’s making excuses in advance &amp; writing their campaign obituary.
3) He’s laying the groundwork to question and undermine Trump’s upcoming victory. <a href="https://t.co/ktoXIM8I5x">https://t.co/ktoXIM8I5x</a>
&mdash; Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1843792028548874501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The backlash was so swift that within just a few hours, Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign team had already issued a statement disavowing Walz&#8217;s comments.
&#8220;Gov. Walz&#8217;s call for eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, a Harris campaign official told CNN,&#8221; Pellish reported.
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Gov. Walz&#39;s call for eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, a Harris campaign official told CNN. <a href="https://t.co/Raj146YqFC">https://t.co/Raj146YqFC</a>
&mdash; Aaron Pellish (@aaronpellish) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronpellish/status/1843830072563917006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Tim Walz Campaigns In Pennsylvania

‘We Didn’t Agree To That’: Walz Blasted For Call To Eliminate Electoral College

Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz said on Tuesday that the &#8220;Electoral College needs to go,&#8221; forcing the Kamala Harris campaign to release a statement saying it does not support abolishing the Constitutional mechanism for presidential elections.
At two campaign fundraisers on the West Coast, Walz called for abolishing the Electoral College, arguing that it forces candidates to focus too much attention on a handful of battleground states, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/politics/tim-walz-electoral-college.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote,” Walz told donors at California Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s home in Sacramento. “So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win.”
At an event earlier on Tuesday, Walz told supporters that he is “a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
Following the Minnesota governor&#8217;s call for the Electoral College to be abolished, the the Harris campaign said in a statement, &#8220;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.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; the statement added.
The Electoral College was established in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Constitution</a>, which calls for &#8220;Electors&#8221; to &#8220;meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President.&#8221; The system requires presidential candidates to gain support from voters across the U.S. instead of focusing on states and cities with the largest populations.
As governor, Walz has pushed for presidents to be elected by popular vote instead of through the Electoral College. In May of 2023, Walz <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state/mn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, making Minnesota the 17th state to agree to award its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
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Walz is not the only Democrat pushing for the end of the Electoral College. After losing the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton argued for electing presidents through a national popular vote. While Clinton won the popular vote against Trump, she <a href="https://www.270towin.com/2016_Election/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> to the Republican nominee in the Electoral College 227 to 304.
During the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all <a href="https://www.axios.com/2019/04/07/electoral-college-2020-presidential-election-candidates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for abolishing the Electoral College while on the campaign trail. Harris said in 2019 that she was &#8220;open to the discussion&#8221; of abolishing the Electoral College.
&#8220;I mean, there&#8217;s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who&#8217;s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that,&#8221; Harris said.

Tim Walz Calls For The Electoral College To Be Abolished: ‘We Need A National Popular Vote’

Tim Walz Calls For The Electoral College To Be Abolished: 'We Need A National Popular Vote'

Errors in the 2020 census benefited Democrats and hurt Republicans, and these inaccuracies could make a difference on Election Day.
In 2022, a report from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the 2020 census incorrectly counted the American population in at least 14 states, leading some states to lose congressional representation. The report was <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/census-bureau-errors-distort-congressional-representation-the-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> at the time by Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky, who told The Daily Wire that the errors could benefit Democrats in November.
“The result of the Census errors in Florida and Texas, two red states, should have three more electoral seats that they never got,” von Spakovsky wrote in an email. “Whereas three blue states, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Colorado, have three congressional seats &#8211; and thus three electoral votes &#8211; they should not have. In a razor thin election, this could make the difference in victory.”
Another Heritage scholar, Stephen Moore, who is also an author and founder of the Club For Growth, brought the report back into the light over the weekend, noting, “A majority of the overcounted states were blue, while a majority of the undercounted states were red.”
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The 2020 Census robbed Red states of electoral seats.
A majority of the overcounted states were blue, while a majority of the undercounted states were red.
According to a <a href="https://twitter.com/Heritage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Heritage</a> analysis, the result of these errors shorted red states three seats:<a href="https://t.co/QhZcUQUz7b">https://t.co/QhZcUQUz7b</a> <a href="https://t.co/rSVIzMeqUm">pic.twitter.com/rSVIzMeqUm</a>
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenMoore/status/1832405763085537461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Moore included a chart showing that overcounted states included Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah. The error size in New York resulted in a population miscount of +695,422. Minnesota and Rhode Island, whose overcounting resulted in them keeping electoral votes they should have lost, overcounted their populations by 216,971 and 55,457, respectively.
Though Rhode Island overcounted by a smaller amount than the other states (it was still a 5% increase in population, however), it managed to hold onto a congressional seat that it should have lost, the Associated Press <a href="https://turnto10.com/news/local/rhode-island-overcounted-during-the-2020-census-rhode-island-may-19-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2022.
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If Rhode Island had counted 19,000 fewer residents – as it should have – it would have lost one of its two congressional seats. Had that happened, the AP reported, that congressional seat would have gone to New York.
As for Florida, it undercounted residents by 750,600. It only needed about 171,500 more residents to gain an extra seat. Texas, too, was undercounted by about 560,000 residents when it only needed 189,000 to gain another congressional seat.
In his analysis of the Census Bureau report, von Spakovsky noted:
<blockquote>Under the 2020 Census enumeration released on April 26, 2021, the total apportionment population of the United States was reported as 331,108,434. After application of the “method of equal proportion,” five states each gained one new congressional seat: Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon. Texas gained two new seats. Due to population decreases, seven states each lost one congressional seat: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.</blockquote>
These errors can’t be corrected until the 2030 census, which could bring additional, similar errors.

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Blue States Benefitted From 2020 Census Mistakes As Red States Suffered Losses

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Many radical positions of Minnesota Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a>, now Kamala Harris’s running mate, are well documented, but a lesser-known measure shows his support for a dangerous scheme to manipulate future presidential elections.
Last May, Walz signed a massive spending <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1830&amp;version=latest&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0&amp;format=pdf">bill</a> with a curious provision tucked near the end: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV). This “<a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/logrolling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">log rolling</a>” was necessary because even some Democrats in the Minnesota Legislature opposed to the scheme. Putting it in a “must pass” bill was the only way to force the anti-Electoral College compact through the legislature so that Walz could sign it.
Here’s how I described the compact in a recent <a href="https://amzn.to/46K0fWR">book</a>: 
<blockquote>The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, or NPV, takes advantage of the flexibility granted to state legislatures in the Constitution: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors….” The original intent is to allow legislators to determine how best to represent their state in presidential elections. The Electors represent the state—not just the legislature—even though the latter has power to direct the manner of appointment. But NPV supporters argue that this power allows legislatures to ignore their own state’s voters and instead appoint Electors based on the popular vote nationwide. This is what the compact would require states to do. 
Of course, no state would do this unilaterally, so NPV has a “trigger”: it only takes effect if adopted by enough states that they control 270 electoral votes—in other words, a majority that would control the outcome of presidential elections.</blockquote>
Today, Minnesota is one of <a href="https://saveourstates.com/electoral-college/the-status-of-npv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17 states</a> (all blue states) and DC that have joined the NPV compact. Together they control 209 electoral votes, which puts it more than three-fourths of the way to taking effect.
Should it reach that threshold, there are ample reasons why judges should strike NPV down. For starters, it ignores the requirement for Congress to <a href="https://saveourstates.com/blog/npv-compact-quirks-ignoring-non-compact-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consent to compacts</a>, co-mingles votes from states with different <a href="https://saveourstates.com/blog/unfinished-recounts-and-litigation-could-thwart-the-compact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election laws</a>, and subverts the core purpose of the constitutional provisions at issue. Yet judges often sidestep election issues to avoid appearing partisan.
If NPV did take effect, it would be a disaster for everyone—except perhaps the far-Left. Consider that NPV gives states more power for having more votes, no matter what. A state that looks the other way when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-all-house-dems-vote-against-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship">non-citizens vote</a> would have more say in who becomes president. California could simply lower its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-city-to-decide-on-lowering-voting-age-for-certain-elections">voting age</a>—it has more 16 and 17 year olds than there are registered voters in several entire states.
Even worse, NPV state officials might get choosy about accepting vote results from other states. Would the California Secretary of State really accept results from Texas if it meant giving 54 electoral votes to the Republican ticket? And what if her progressive voter base was convinced that elections in red states were somehow <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegitimate</a>?
The Electoral College is a brilliant system that works even better than the American Founders thought it would. So well, in fact, that Germany and India have their own versions of electoral colleges in the constitutions they wrote in the middle of the twentieth century. It prevents regional candidates from winning and forces political parties to build vast, diverse coalitions.
The NPV compact would undo all this. It’s revealing that politicians like Tim Walz would rather manipulate the election process than figure out how to attract more voters into their coalition. Like Walz, the NPV Compact is sometimes presented as moderate when it is, in fact, a tool of the far-Left and a threat to our constitutional order.
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Trent England is founder and executive director of <a href="https://saveourstates.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Save Our States</a> and a producer of the film <a href="https://www.safeguard.film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Safeguard: An Electoral College Story</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats and advocates celebrate $72 billion budget

Tim Walz Is Part Of Effort To Rig The Electoral College

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All 16 Republican defendants named in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> &#8220;false elector prosecution&#8221; pleaded not guilty on Thursday to several felony charges over their alleged role in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, the state attorney general&#8217;s office announced.
Nine of the defendants were arraigned on state charges during a virtual court hearing in Lansing, while the other seven pleaded not guilty in recent weeks, according to reports.
&#8220;Each was given a personal recognizance bond which stipulates defendants must not travel out of state without permission of the Court, must not possess or purchase firearms, ammunition, or dangerous weapons, must not commit any illegal acts, and must not miss any court dates at the risk of jeopardizing their bond,&#8221; Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel&#8217;s office said in a <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2023/08/10/all-16-arraignments-held-in-false-elector-prosecution-future-court-dates-set" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Nessel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16-pro-trump-false-electors-charged-with-felonies-in-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> felony charges against the defendants in July for allegedly signing their names to multiple official documents in the basement of the Michigan GOP headquarters on December 14, 2020, that claimed that Donald Trump won Michigan&#8217;s Presidential election in 2020.
The attorney general said the defendants then transmitted the documents to the U.S Senate and National Archives in an alleged coordinated effort to award Michigan&#8217;s electoral votes &#8220;to the candidate of their choosing, in place of the candidates actually elected by the people of Michigan.&#8221;
&#8220;The false electors&#8217; actions undermined the public&#8217;s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,&#8221; Nessel said in a news release last month.
&#8220;My department has prosecuted numerous cases of election law violations throughout my tenure, and it would be malfeasance of the greatest magnitude if my department failed to act here in the face of overwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election,&#8221; she added.
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Nessel charged each defendant with eight criminal counts, including conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing, and election law forgery.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/politics/michigan-fake-elector-arraignments/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the defendants include Republican National Committee&#8217;s Kathy Berden, current Michigan GOP vice chair Marian Sheridan, and former Michigan GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock.
Other defendants include Mayor Kent Vanderwood of the City of Wyoming, Michigan, Shelby Township clerk Stanley Grot, Grand Blanc school board member Amy Facchinello, and local GOP officials Rose Rook and Mari-Ann Henry. Also named in the case are pro-Trump lawsuit plaintiffs John Haggard and Timothy King; former GOP candidates Clifford Frost and Michele Lundgren; and Hank Choate, James Renner, Mayra Rodriguez, and Ken Thompson.
Haggard&#8217;s attorney Kurt Krause reportedly said the probability of conviction for his client was low because of &#8220;the dubiousness of the factual basis asserted by the government.&#8221;
&#8220;He is eager and looks forward to fighting these charges,&#8221; Krause said, according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/10/9-michigan-false-electors-arraigned-not-guilty-pleas-entered/70565472007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News</a>.
All defendants are set to appear in court for a probable cause conference on August 18.
The case was named in special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s recent indictment against former President Donald Trump, who alleged that Trump&#8217;s team wanted to “subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes” with the so-called scheme on January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani Appears Before Michigan State Legislature’s House Oversight Committee

Michigan Republicans Plead Not Guilty In 2020 ‘False Elector Prosecution’

Michigan Republicans Plead Not Guilty In 2020 'False Elector Prosecution'

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Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/raskin-channels-schiff-insists-to-cnn-he-has-evidence-republicans-begged-trump-for-january-6-pardons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD) took issue on Friday with the constitutionally-mandated manner in which presidents are elected, calling the Electoral College &#8220;an accident waiting to happen.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/next-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raskin</a>, who was a constitutional law professor prior to his time in Congress, told MSNBC host Chris Hayes that the system as a whole was &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; and that the Electoral College had allowed room for &#8220;strategic bad faith actors&#8221; like former President Donald Trump.
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Former Constitutional law professor and sitting congressman has a problem with the constitutional manner in which presidents are elected: &quot;The Electoral College is *an accident waiting to happen* and we have to deal with that at some point in American history.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/pF5scFAuiU">pic.twitter.com/pF5scFAuiU</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1569067830653378565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Final question for you. You were a constitutional law professor before you were a United States Congressman. I wanted to hear you talk about these different aspects of an inquiry or making the case here,&#8221; Todd began, noting that the January 6th Committee — of which Raskin is part — did not have the power to prosecute former President Trump.
&#8220;Your committee doesn’t have criminal prosecutorial power, and nor should it, it’s a congressional committee,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There’s a difference between what I would call the great crime of Donald Trump, which was a frontal assault on the core of American democracy, and whatever statutory violation of the U.S. code he may have committed. Sometimes, it can feel a little bit like a mismatch there, and I wanna know what you think about those two lanes.&#8221;
&#8220;Obviously, we’re gonna need some legislative changes to the criminal code, to account for, now the possibility of presidents taking a headlong rush at seizing the Presidency,&#8221; Raskin replied. &#8220;But there are federal statutes out there that will do the job. We have course have seditious conspiracy. We have conspiracy to interfere with the federal proceeding, which I think everybody can agree took place here. After, all the whole chant was &#8216;stop the steal.'&#8221;
Raskin went on to insist that the riot that took place on Capitol Hill had been planned out beforehand.
&#8220;So, yeah, I think that we will have to look at some new federal statutory changes,&#8221; Raskin continued. &#8220;And we have to look at the way that the electoral system itself is vulnerable to strategic bad faith actors like Donald Trump. The Electoral College is an accident waiting to happen and we have to deal with that at some point in American history. Why not now?&#8221;

House Select Committee On January 6th Holds Its 7th Hearing

Sitting Congressman Says U.S. Constitution Is ‘An Accident Waiting To Happen’

Sitting Congressman Jamie Raskin Says U.S. Constitution Is 'An Accident Waiting To Happen'

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