Virginia’s Democrat Governor, Abigail Spanberger, just signed a law that commits the state’s electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote. Not Virginia’s popular vote. The *national* popular vote. Meaning your state’s electors would go to whichever candidate California, New York, and Chicago picked for you.
So if every single person in Virginia votes for the Republican, but the Democrat squeaks out the national popular vote by running up the score in San Francisco and Manhattan — tough luck, Virginia. Your votes go to the Democrat anyway. What a deal!
This is called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is a fancy way of saying “we figured out how to rig the Electoral College without technically amending the Constitution.” The whole scheme works like this: enough states sign on until they collectively hold 270 electoral votes, and then they all agree to ignore how their own citizens voted and hand their electors to the national winner. It’s an end-run around the founding document, and Democrats are treating it like a fun little hack.
Here’s what they won’t say out loud: they’re doing this because they can’t win the Electoral College anymore. They’ve lost the map. They know it. We know it. The 2024 election was a bloodbath for them, and instead of looking in the mirror and asking “hey, maybe we should stop calling half the country fascists,” they decided to just change the rules.
That’s always the Democrat playbook, isn’t it? Can’t win the game? Change the rules. Can’t pack the Supreme Court? Threaten to add seats. Can’t win the Senate? Try to make DC and Puerto Rico states. Can’t win the Electoral College? Just sign a compact that makes it irrelevant. These people would change the rules of Monopoly if they kept landing on Boardwalk.
The beauty of the Electoral College — and the reason the Founders designed it this way — is that it forces candidates to care about the whole country. You can’t just rack up votes in three coastal cities and ignore the rest of America. Democrats hate this because their entire base IS three coastal cities. They want New York and Los Angeles to pick the president for farmers in Iowa and factory workers in Michigan. And Virginia’s governor just said “sign me up.”
Think about the message this sends to Virginia voters. Your governor looked at the citizens of his own state and said, “Your vote matters — unless someone else’s vote matters more.” That’s not democracy. That’s a con job with a notary stamp.
The compact now has 21 states plus DC, totaling 213 electoral votes. They need 270 to trigger it. They’re not there yet, but they’re getting uncomfortably close. Every blue state that signs on brings them one step closer to making the Electoral College a rubber stamp for whatever the coastal elites decide.
And notice which states are signing up — it’s all the deep blue ones. Maryland, Massachusetts, California, New York. States where the outcome is never in doubt anyway. They’re volunteering to give away votes they were already going to cast for the Democrat. The real danger is when a purple state like Virginia signs on — because now you’re talking about a state where Republicans actually compete, and the governor just told Republican voters their ballots might not count.
President Trump won the Electoral College decisively. Twice. Democrats couldn’t beat him on the field, so now they want to tear up the field and play a different game. The National Popular Vote Compact isn’t about “making every vote count” — it’s about making sure only the *right* votes count.
Virginia voters should remember this when their governor’s term is up. He just signed away the most fundamental right you have as a citizen of a republic — the right to have your state’s voice heard in a presidential election. And he did it with a smile.
We didn’t fight a revolution so that California could pick our president. Somebody should remind the governor of the Commonwealth where the Revolution actually started.
