{"id":112156,"date":"2024-10-09T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112156"},"modified":"2024-10-09T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:58:50","slug":"walz-says-electoral-college-needs-to-go-at-california-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112156","title":{"rendered":"Walz says Electoral College \u2018needs to go\u2019 at California fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm213jgjf000l1pnw66uqagtk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College \u201cneeds to go,\u201d while acknowledging \u201cthat\u2019s not the world we live in,\u201d during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday\ufeff, according to a pool report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm213lhvh00083b6lrnb2on2s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that\u2019s not the world we live in. So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win,\u201d the Democratic vice presidential nominee told supporters gathered at Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s private residence in Sacramento, according to the pool report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm214sytb00003b5wlalv9fj5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u2019s call for eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, a Harris campaign official told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm214u81z00023b5wau5tuddu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cGovernor Walz believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support for the Harris-Walz ticket. He was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes. And, he was thanking them for their support that is helping fund those efforts,\u201d a campaign spokesperson said in a statement.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm213lhvh00093b6ld94tgzsg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Vice President Kamala Harris has previously expressed openness to eliminating the Electoral College. During a 2019 interview on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d Harris, who was running for president at the time, said she was \u201copen to the discussion\u201d of abolishing the Electoral College.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm213lhvh000a3b6lbbpcy7kg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere\u2019s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who\u2019s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that, so I\u2019m open to the discussion,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/434870-kamala-harris-says-she-is-open-to-abolishing-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said<\/a>\u00a0in 2019.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm213lhvh000b3b6li1qh9shw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u2019s remarks came at his second fundraiser of the day on Tuesday. He also attended a fundraiser in the suburbs of Seattle on Tuesday morning and spoke at another fundraiser in Reno, Nevada, in the evening before holding a campaign rally there.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2140cr200063b6l8fskwdf1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In five US presidential elections \u2013 including in 2016, when former President Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton \u2013 the eventual winner has lost the popular vote but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/01\/politics\/what-is-electoral-college-history-explained\/index.html\">won the Electoral College.<\/a> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/10\/us\/electoral-college-slavery-links-trnd\/index.html\">movement to abolish the Electoral College<\/a> gained momentum in 2020 amid the United States\u2019 reckoning with its history on race. Some historians argue the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/electoral-college-interactive-maps\">Electoral College\u2019s origins\u00a0<\/a>are linked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2020\/07\/another-monument-to-white-supremacy-that-should-come-down-the-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to White supremacy<\/a>, but constitutional rules make changing or eliminating the system difficult.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm214cid6000f3b6lbcbb8jip@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Faith Karimi contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/08\/politics\/walz-electoral-college-needs-to-go\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College \u201cneeds to go,\u201d while acknowledging \u201cthat\u2019s not the world we live in,\u201d during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday\ufeff, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112156\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}