Virginia has become the latest state to sign onto the scam that is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the Democratic Party’s attempt to undercut our electoral system and rig the system in their favor.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed into law Virginia’s commitment to this national popular vote promise, where states pledge to give their electoral votes to whichever president wins the fictional national popular vote, regardless of how the residents of the state vote. The promise will only take effect once the compact has the support of at least 270 electoral votes. Virginia brings the total to 222.
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There is a litany of problems with this proposal. For one, the states involved pledge to commit their electoral votes based on an irrelevant metric. Presidential candidates aren’t running to win the “national popular vote,” and yet these states would punish them for not pursuing it. It is incoherent given our current system.
The idea of a national popular vote system would also further undermine trust in elections. The Electoral College disincentivizes voter fraud (and foreign interference) by making it harder to alter national election results in just one location. Converting the system to the national popular vote would make it easier for fraudsters and foreign agitators, who would know simply that they need to add more votes (or remove more votes) to alter results. And, even if such fraud did not happen, you can imagine the national mood when a candidate appears likely to win on election night only for California’s monthlong vote counting to flip the result.
Most importantly, though, is that Democrats have already shown the playbook they wish to pursue back in the 2024 election. That was when Colorado fought to have President Donald Trump removed from the ballot over an assumed crime for which he was never charged. The Supreme Court righted that wrong, but the Democratic Party showed its hand: It wants to remove Republicans from the ballot entirely.
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There were nearly 1.4 million voters in Colorado who voted for Trump in 2024. Maine and Illinois also heavily pushed for Trump’s disqualification, which would disenfranchise another 2.8 million or so Trump voters. Trump won the “national popular vote” by some 2.3 million votes. All three of those states have signed onto the popular vote compact, and all three have shown that they want to alter the national popular vote by making it impossible to vote for the Republican candidate.
This is all a sham, and everyone knows that these Democratic states would change the rules at the last minute, the moment a Republican lost the Electoral College but won the “popular vote.” This is the Democratic Party trying to undermine the electoral system so it can placate voters crammed into Democratic cities and ignore the rest of the country, because it doesn’t want to do the work of winning over voters that live outside of Los Angeles or New York City.