Democrats plot their course on national popular vote
But it’s unclear whether they will move forward on national popular vote after gaining historic trifectas on the back of promising to lower costs for voters — a move that would make their own states less crucial for the 2028 presidential battle.
Key points
- Incoming Michigan Senate Majority Leader Darrin Camilleri said he’s open to enacting a national popular vote, but conceded that any change would likely invite lawsuits from Republicans.
- Incoming Arizona Senate Majority Leader Priya Sundareshan told POLITICO her caucus will take up the national popular vote, but the timing remains unsettled.
- That means if Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin join, along with either Arizona or Nevada, the compact would go into effect in every member state, making it possible for the next president to be elected by winning the popular vote while losing the Electoral College.
Democrats in those five states, which will likely be battlegrounds in 2028 under the current system, have supported switching to national popular vote in the past.
Additional details
- Democrats who just triumphed in a number of battlegrounds are facing pressure to make their states just a little less powerful in the fight for the presidency.
- We should be a one-person, one-vote democracy.” When Nevada Democrats held a trifecta in 2019, they put a bill to join the compact on former Gov.
- The compact would go into effect when it’s enacted in states whose combined electoral vote total is at least 270.
- “We certainly are and have been prepared to join the compact, and we also want to make sure that we are showing that our priorities are reflective of what we really focused on on the campaign trail,” she said.
- Steve Sisolak’s desk, but Sisolak vetoed it out of concern it would diminish the role of smaller states like Nevada in the electoral process.
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