Walz Says Electoral College ‘Needs to Go’ But Unlikely to Happen

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz offered support for eliminating the Electoral College but acknowledged that appeared unlikely in the current political climate.

“The Electoral College needs to go,” Walz said at a fundraiser on Tuesday in Sacramento, California, hosted by that state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, according to a pool report from the event. Walz, though, cast doubt that the process could be realistically changed now.

“We need national popular vote,” he said. “But that’s not the world we live in.” He added, “so we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go ...