Hoping to prevent a repeat of the outcome
of the 2016 presidential election.
15 states have now signed onto a compact to
award their electoral votes to whichever candidate
wins the national popular vote.
15 states are now saying that it doesn't matter
who wins our state.
Every elector here is going to go for whoever
wins that popular vote.
Nevada was the 15th state to join that this
week, and that now brings the total number
of electoral votes to one 95 once they get
to 270 electoral votes pledge to go to the
national popular vote winner, the pact goes
into effect.
So technically if they do not hit that too
70 marks, so they need 75 more electoral votes
to get there.
It may not end up happening, but the momentum
is growing and the momentum has has grown
exponentially in such a very short time and
we're now seeing these other states, states
we didn't think would even want to join this
thing.
Join up and say, you know what?
Enough is enough.
Let's get rid of this archaic, outdated Electoral
College and start actually listening to the
will of the people when they vote for one
person instead of the other, and yet somehow
the other gets to be the president because
this system is backwards.
They don't want to repeat of 2016 they don't
want to repeat of the 2000 election, but the
people who are fighting this, of course, are
the Republicans.
Why?
Why just gave you the reason?
2016 and 2000 Because in recent decades, the
only people to benefit from the electoral
college happened to be the Republicans.
In fact, two of the worst presidents in the
history of the United States never would have
been president at all had we not had the electoral
college.
Let me think about it.
Not just with Trump or with George W. Bush
in the year 2000 had that man not won the
electoral vote, even though we lost the popular
vote.
This country would be so much different right
now.
You know, all these horrible studies that
we're seeing come out saying, we've got 12
years left before the worst effects of climate
change take place.
We wouldn't be seeing those reports because
they never would've had to have been done
because we would have had an environmentalist
Al Gore in the White House instead of an oil
industry guy, George W. Bush sitting in there.
So many problems could have been fixed.
So many problems could have been avoided.
We would be in a much different country today,
so different in fact that perhaps I wouldn't
be sitting here talking to you right now,
but it is what it is, but hopefully not for
much longer.
Hopefully more and more states join onto this
and we say, you know what?
Maybe we're not taking it out of the constitution.
We're just going to change the way we award
our electors because after all that actually
is up to the states.
They have that constitutional authority to
decide where their electors go and that's
a huge benefit to them.
That's going to prevent a legal battles from
really even starting.
I'm sure they will start, but there's not
much they can do.
When the constitution says no, they get to
decide how to award those electors and Republicans
are still out there arguing, oh, if you get
rid of the electoral college, then most of
the con uh, states in this country, nobody's
going to want to even talk to those voters,
which is absolutely one of the dumbest arguments
I've ever heard.
Yes, they're going to talk to them because
at that point, the popular vote matters.
So we'll vote in Wyoming is going to count
as much as a vote in California.
How do Republicans not understand that?
How do the critics of this plan not understand
that one person, one vote doesn't matter where
you are in the country?
Abolishing the electoral college makes every
single vote count equally having an electoral
college.
Yeah, that makes New York, Texas, California,
Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania puts more emphasis
on those states.
So people do get a benefit from ignoring your
Wyoming's and Montana's and Dakota's abolishing
the electoral college changes that.
And suddenly these states that never get to
see a presidential candidate swing through
might be surprised at the next location of
a presidential rally.
