Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a bill that would help destabilize the nation. It would award the state’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. This would be regardless of how Virginians actually vote.
The legislation is part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It was passed mostly along party lines with Democrat votes.
It requires 270 electoral votes from participating states to take effect. Once activated, your individual vote in Virginia (and other compact states) would be overridden by the nationwide popular vote total. This is a radical attempt to bypass the Electoral College and diminish the power of individual states.
It would destroy the Electoral College and the Constitution. Small states will disappear within the compact.
The NPV
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has now been enacted by 19 jurisdictions. They possess 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it.
According to the leftist League of Women Voters, six additional states with 65 electoral votes (Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) are especially promising places to obtain the 48 electoral votes needed before 2028. They are yellow on the map.
There will be lawsuits.
Go Deeper
Understand that the Soros family was behind the businessmen who began this process. It will destroy the US Constitution, and only Democrats will decide the President. Smaller, less-populated states will be greatly diminished.
Without the Electoral College and with the NPV, all the states in red would have no say whatsoever in the running of their federal government.
McLaughlin uses a hypothetical example: R candidate wins 48 states by identical 54-46 margins. D wins California, New York and D.C. by 75-25 margins (only three states). D wins the national popular vote. Who should win?
I used this hypothetical example: R candidate wins 48 states by identical 54-46 margins, D wins CA, NY & DC by 75-25 margins, D wins national popular vote. Who should win? pic.twitter.com/832nMi9j88
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 3, 2019
35. Too many responses to get to everyone, but once you start adding runoffs, redrawing state boundaries, rewriting ballot & voting eligibility rules, you grasp what a radical reworking of the whole system is being proposed. https://t.co/EkplIoXqxh
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 5, 2019
McLaughlin writes in his article at National Review:
The core function of the Electoral College is to require presidential candidates to appeal to the voters of a sufficient number of large and smaller states, rather than just try to run up big margins in a handful of the biggest states, cities, or regions. Critics ignore the important value served by having a president whose base of support is spread over a broad, diverse array of regions of the country (even a president as polarizing as Donald Trump won seven of the ten largest states and places as diverse as Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, West Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Texas).
In a nation as wide and varied as ours, it would be destabilizing to have a president elected over the objections of most of the states. Our American system as a whole — both by design and by experience — demands the patient building of broad, diverse political coalitions over time to effect significant change. The presidency works together with the Senate and House to make that a necessity. The Senate, of course, is also a target of the Electoral College’s critics, but eliminating the equal suffrage of states requires the support of every single state. A president elected without regard to state support is more likely to face a dysfunctional level of opposition in the Senate.
Clearly, the blues want to destabilize the nation. This is a good start to tearing it all down.