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Since the Electoral College has more or less constantly been under attack from the Left, this conversation between Ross and Rubin is a good way to get up to speed on the history and facts about our system of choosing the President.

The left – this time via Tim Walz – is once again lobbying to eliminate the Electoral College, in the name of ‘democracy’.

Tim Walz Says the ‘Electoral College Needs to Go’

While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris on the West Coast, Walz suggested at two different fundraisers that he would prefer to focus on winning votes across the country rather than concentrate on key battleground states that could sway the upcoming presidential election as they have done in the past.

“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in,” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told donors in California governor Gavin Newsom’s Sacramento home. “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.”

In a similar statement at a Seattle fundraiser earlier Tuesday, Walz touted himself as “a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”

Tara Ross is a mother, wife, writer, and retired lawyer. She is the author of The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders’ Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule,Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College, co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State (with Joseph C. Smith, Jr.), & We Elect A President: The Story of our Electoral College. She is a constitutionalist, but with a definite libertarian streak! Visit Tara Ross on Facebook, or at her website, TaraRoss.com.