In my latest podcast episode, I talk about the pact forming between blue states to do an end-run around the Electoral College in all future presidential elections. Virginia's unpopular new governor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, just this week entered the commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which commits Virginia to awarding its 13 electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote.
This should make every voter's blood boil.
To be clear, the compact does not take effect immediately. It only kicks into gear once enough participating states join to collectively control 270 electoral votes, the number needed for a candidate to win the presidency. Right now, the compact is still short of that threshold, but only by a measly few votes. A few more states sign on, and it's game over.
That is why this under-reported development matters right now, before the switch gets flipped. Once enough left-leaning states sign on, the mechanism is in place. At that point, voters in blue states may wake up one day and discover that the election outcome in their own state no longer determines where their electoral votes go.
And that is a breathtaking betrayal of the voters.
It is also part of a broader pattern. When Democrats do not like the rules, they change them. If the Electoral College stands in the way of their preferred outcome, they look for a workaround. If the voters stand in the way, they redefine whose votes really count. If constitutional structures frustrate their agenda, they attack the structures.
Virginia has already seen plenty of this from the radical new Democrat regime. On guns, on redistricting, on election rules, the message is the same: the people are a problem to be managed, not citizens to be respected.
The National Popular Vote compact fits neatly into that mindset.
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And here is the part Virginians should find most insulting: this was done with remarkably little public attention. Most voters have no idea what the compact is, how it works, or what it could mean for their own ballot. That is no accident. The less people understand it, the easier it is to sell as some harmless procedural tweak instead of what it actually is: a backdoor attempt to replace the will of Virginia voters in presidential elections with the will of the elites.
You do not have to be a constitutional scholar to understand the problem.
If Virginia votes for Candidate A, Virginia’s electoral votes should go to Candidate A. Anything else is a deliberate override of the voters’ will.
Supporters of the compact may insist this is perfectly legal. Critics will argue it invites constitutional challenges and undermines the federal design of presidential elections. That legal fight will be long and messy. But the political and moral issue is much simpler: Virginia Democrats are telling you that your vote belongs to them to reassign.
Hard pass.
All Americans should be paying very close attention to this. They should be talking about it, asking questions, and making sure their friends and neighbors understand exactly what has been done in their name.
Cnce politicians convince voters that statewide election results do not really matter, the next thing to go is faith in the entire system (which has already worn thin for good reason).
This is a dangerous game the Democrats are playing, and they seem quietly confident they're going to win.
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