Governor Tim Walz (D) called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a campaign fundraiser in California.
Appearing with California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), Walz told reporters, “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go.”
“We need a national popular vote,” he said, according to The New York Times. “So we need to win Beaver County, Pa. We need to be able to go into York, Pa., and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win.”
At an earlier fundraiser event in Seattle, Walz called himself a “national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
The Harris campaign claimed Walz’s statement was not the campaign’s official position.
“Governor 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,” a spokesperson told Politico. “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.”
