In an interview on Thursday with “Good Morning America” anchor Michael Strahan, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz aligned himself with the place of the Harris-Walz marketing campaign on the Electoral Faculty, which articulated its stance after Walz earlier within the week supported eliminating the system.
“I’ve spoken about it up to now, that [Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has] been very clear on this, and the marketing campaign. And my place is the marketing campaign’s place,” Walz mentioned.
At a fundraiser at California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s non-public residence in Sacramento on Tuesday, Walz mentioned that the Electoral Faculty system “must go,” in favor of a “nationwide standard vote.”
Watch: ABC Information’ Michael Strahan’s TV interview with Gov. Tim Walz airs on “Good Morning America” on Friday, Oct. 11.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz talks to ABC Information’ Michael Strahan for an interview that can air on “Good Morning America” on Friday, Oct. 11.
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“However that is not the world we stay in. So we have to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We want to have the ability to go into York, Pennsylvania, win. We have to be in western Wisconsin and win. We have to be in Reno, Nevada and win,” Walz mentioned then.
However after ABC Information inquired whether or not Harris shared Walz’s place, a Harris marketing campaign official replied, “Eliminating the Electoral Faculty is just not a marketing campaign place.”
In discussing the discrepancy with Strahan, Walz cited the truth that whereas he’s campaigned in lots of states over the previous few months, “there’s of us that really feel each vote should rely in each state,” not simply battlegrounds.
“The purpose I am attempting to make is, is that there is of us that really feel each vote should rely in each state. And I feel some of us really feel that is not the case. Our marketing campaign does that. And the purpose I am saying is I am in 5 states in two days,” Walz instructed Strahan on Thursday.
“We’re on the market making the case that — the marketing campaign’s place is evident that that is not their place,” he mentioned. “Their place and my place is, is to make it possible for all people understands their vote, it doesn’t matter what state they’re in, issues.”
The Electoral Faculty system determines who wins the presidency based mostly on which candidate wins the vast majority of 538 electoral votes distributed among the many 50 states and Washington, D.C. — not the favored vote.
Whereas electoral counts are allotted based mostly on a state’s inhabitants, there have been cases of candidates profitable the election whereas not profitable the favored vote. Hillary Clinton in 2016, for instance, received the favored vote however not the electoral vote.
Although the Harris marketing campaign is saying it’s not their place, Harris herself, when she was working for president in 2019, mentioned she was “open” to discussing disposing of the Electoral Faculty.
“I feel that it’s — I’m open to the dialogue,” Harris instructed Jimmy Kimmel in March 2019. “I imply there’s no query that the favored vote has been diminished when it comes to making the ultimate choice about who’s the president of the US and we have to take care of that. So, I’m open to the dialogue.”
