Republicans, Go on Offense Against the National Popular Vote — Now! | The American Spectator

In case you missed it, the scheme by special interest groups to replace the Electoral College with a so-called national popular vote may have just suffered a mortal blow — and it happened in a blue state, Maine.
The battle is raging between Democrats who wish to stay in the National Popular Vote compact and those defecting to the Republican minority in increasingly larger numbers. That battle isn’t over, but the fact that conservatives are making progress at all shows Democrats are abandoning the scheme altogether. Here’s why.
President Donald Trump’s popular vote win in 2024 shattered Democrats’ delusion that Republicans had become a permanent minority party. Republican legislators should act now to defeat this harmful pact that violates the principles of America’s federal democracy by reminding their Democratic colleagues of the value the Electoral College provides to American voters.
Why does it matter? Had the compact been in effect in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have become president despite winning only 20 states and visiting just 37 — infamously skipping Wisconsin altogether. Without needing swing states’ electoral votes, she might have won the popular vote by racking up Democratic votes in fewer than 10 states… and won the White House, thanks to the compact.
The compact is a backdoor strategy to bypass the Constitution without an amendment. Member states agree to award their electoral votes to the popular vote winner — regardless of how their citizens vote. Once states totaling 270 electoral votes join — a majority of all electoral votes — the compact kills the Electoral College by making it irrelevant.
So far, states representing 209 electoral votes have joined the compact. If just the states that passed it through one legislative branch joined, it would give the compact 283 electoral votes — well over the threshold to override the Constitution and hand the presidency to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in 2028. That’s why it’s so urgent to start r…