{"id":2232413,"date":"2024-04-29T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electoral-college-opponents-say-the-abolition-effort-should-be-bipartisan\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:24:25","slug":"electoral-college-opponents-say-the-abolition-effort-should-be-bipartisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electoral-college-opponents-say-the-abolition-effort-should-be-bipartisan\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of the Electoral College argue that bipartisan support is crucial for its abolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felectoral-college-opponents-say-the-abolition-effort-should-be-bipartisan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2232413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Opponents of the Electoral\u200c College, advocating for\u2062 its\u200b bipartisan\u2063 abolition,\u2062 assert that the system&#8217;s fate should not hinge on a shift in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-about-this-election-seems-to-add-up-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Nothing about this election seems to add up | The Liberty Loft\">popular vote<\/a> towards \u200bformer President Donald Trump.\u200b The contentious issue,\u2064 amplified by \u200dDemocratic dissatisfaction in 2016, reflects a sharp divide; while 82% of \u2064Democrats seek its elimination, only 47% of Republicans share this view,\u2062 as per a 2023 poll by Pew Research. This deep-rooted partisan bias raises questions about\u200b potential shifts \u2064in sentiment\u200d should the electoral \u200boutcome differ from the popular vote. Advocates like Saul \u200dAnuzis, a \u2063Republican \u200dworking with\u2064 the National Popular Vote\u200d group, emphasize a\u2064 bipartisan approach, \u2063striving for \u200delectoral reform that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-d-c-doldrums\/\" title=\"The D.C. Doldrums\">transcends party lines<\/a>. Despite greater Democratic support for a national popular\u200c vote, Anuzis believes effective messaging can bridge this gap, \u2062highlighting the \u2062importance\u200d of\u200b ensuring every voter&#8217;s voice holds significance, regardless\u200d of \u200cpolitical affiliation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Opponents of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Electoral College\">Electoral College<\/a> argue that the effort to abolish it is bipartisan and would not change if the popular vote swung toward former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral College has become an increasingly partisan matter, particularly after Democratic resentment in 2016, when Trump lost the popular vote but won enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">electoral votes<\/a> to secure the presidency. The seemingly partisan nature of campaigns against the Electoral College has, in turn, endeared it to Republicans \u2014 a 2023 Pew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2023\/09\/25\/majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-moving-away-from-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"poll\">poll<\/a> found that while 82% of Democrats want to abolish the Electoral College, only 47% of Republicans do.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy bias has led many to suspect that if fortunes were to sway the other way, with Trump winning the popular vote but President Joe Biden winning the Electoral College, advocates for its abolition would change course. However, many advocates argue that is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>One such advocate is Saul Anuzis, a lifelong Republican from Michigan. He works with the National Popular Vote group, a bipartisan movement to abolish the Electoral College and instead decide presidential elections by the popular vote. Anuzis argues that the matter is a bipartisan one, and the reformation of the electoral system would not necessarily favor Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be the Republican chairman in Michigan,\u201d he told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cI think we\u2019re a center-right nation. I think more people share our values than [the Democrats]. I would rather run a presidential campaign nationwide in all 50 states and give Republicans and conservatives a reason to vote across the country rather than trying to thread the needle and pick off a winning coalition, you know, in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, whoever happens to be the battleground state that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou take a look at California as an example,\u201d he continued. \u201d \u2026 California has more Republicans than probably 25 or more states combined, but they don\u2019t have a reason to vote because it\u2019s such a strong Democratic state, that their voting \u2026 on average drops like 25% below voter registration among Republicans. But then if you take a look at California, you know, they pass tax initiatives \u2026 school choice, etc. So, you know, there\u2019s a lot of people who understand when their vote counts and when it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Anuzis acknowledged that more Democrats support a national popular vote than Republicans, he said it is more a matter of messaging from advocates than anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of people that don\u2019t understand the value, and I think a lot of people kind of have the same thought \u2026 that Republicans have never won a popular vote,\u201d he said. \u201cI always like to say, you know, if you take a look at it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-to-new-life-in-the-new-year\/\" title=\"Here's to New Life in the New Year\">knee-jerk<\/a> Democrats took a knee-jerk for this because they think Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would be president. That\u2019s kind of what our job is \u2014 to have the conversation with people and explain, you know, what\u2019s the value of having every voter in every state be politically relevant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anuzis was also steadfast in the constitutionality of the argument. Pursuant to Article II of the Constitution, \u201cEach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors,\u201d leaving some ambiguity as to how to choose electors.<\/p>\n<p>Anuzis sees this direction in the Constitution as in line with a popular vote, and the National Popular Vote group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/sites\/default\/files\/202404\/1-pager-npv-v235-2024-4-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"describes\">describes<\/a> it as a \u201cconstitutionally conservative, state-based approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go back historically, at one time, governors used to appoint electors, the state legislature used to appoint electors, people used to actually physically run in electoral districts,\u201d Anuzis said. \u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t until we went in and out of the Civil War, and the North and the South wanted reliable electors, that the states basically moved to the winner-take-all rule, which is what we use today in 48 of the 50 different states. So from a constitutionality standpoint, there\u2019s basically zero question that this is the constitutional way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all, he was confident that a Republican candidate could win the popular vote if it came to it, and he dismissed concerns that Democrats have won all recent popular votes as not representative of what would happen if a popular vote was adopted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of our ideas as a Republican, as a conservative, to run nationwide,\u201d Anuzis said. \u201cI actually think it would be beneficial. I think we can win. And we have never really run a national popular vote election. So I think that\u2019s a very important factor because I think kind of a misconception is \u2026 I\u2019ve never seen Republicans win the national popular vote. Well, we\u2019ve never run one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the Electoral College contend that the push for its abolition is bipartisan and remains unchanged even if the popular vote shifts in favor of former President Donald Trump. 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