by Frank Holmes, reporter
With polls showing former President Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in multiple swing states, the Democrats are panicking—and, as some of the dirty tricks they just played in a deep blue state show, that’s when they’re most dangerous.
The Left is pulling out all the stops to keep Trump from returning to office, even if he wins.
A new law adopted by the Democrat-controlled state wouldn’t let Trump win the state’s election, even if be wins the most votes in the state.
Maine has signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Each state that signs the NPV agrees that it will give all of its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most popular votes nationwide.
That would mean 100 percent of Maine’ voters could support one candidate—but see the state’s electoral votes go to someone else. Does that sound like a way to preserve “our democracy”?
Speaking of democracy, the bill itself barely cleared the Maine House of Representatives, passing by a a single vote, 73-72.
The governor didn’t even sign it.
As it turns out, even the governor—a typical Northeastern liberal—publicly had misgivings about the dangerous election scheme.
“There is merit to both sides of the argument…and so I will allow this bill to become law without my signature,” said Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat.
“She doesn’t want her fingerprints on it,” said Trent England of Save Our States, a group dedicated to preserving the constitutional system of elections.
The founders instituted the Electoral College to make sure someone could only become president if he had the support of the whole country—big states and small states, North and South, urban and rural.
The NPV would repeal the Constitution’s system of elections without bothering to amend the Constitution.
“They played every dirty trick in the book to pass it in Minnesota and Maine,” said Save Our States.
Remember, @NatlPopularVote's main objective is to make the Electoral College irrelevant without doing the hard work of amending the Constitution. They played every dirty trick in the book to pass it in Minnesota and Maine. https://t.co/BOb82Lk246
— Save Our States (@SaveOurStates) April 17, 2024
Mills said she had to obliterate the Founding Fathers in order to preserve the “foundations” of America.
“Absent a ranked choice voting circumstance, it seems to me that the person who wins the most votes should become the president. To do otherwise seemingly runs counter to the democratic foundations of our country,” the governor claimed.
A national popular vote not only undermines the Constitution, it spites her own state’s voters. If the victory goes to the candidate with the most votes, candidates will focus on huge states like California and New York…and ignore states like rural Maine, with its 1.3 million people.
At least eight cities have a larger population than the entire state of Maine: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, and San Diego.
Mills tried to talk herself out of the facts, saying, “While I recognize concerns about presidential candidates spending less time in Maine, it is also quite possible that candidates will spend more time in every state when every vote counts equally.”
A national popular vote would lead to a national electoral catastrophe every four years. “The measure aims to strip Maine voters of their power in presidential elections in favor of a convoluted election process used by no major democratic nation today,” said England, about America. “It has no provision for runoffs, recounts, or conflicts, while relying on cooperation from states that refuse to join the compact. In the real world, NPV would lead to election crises far worse than anything seen after the 2020 election.”
Imagine nationwide recounts, like the one in Florida in 2020—and the riots that might break out afterwards.
The bill is even more outrageous since, until this year, Maine actually gave people greater representation than most states. Instead of requiring a candidate to win the whole state, for 52 years Maine allocated two of its electoral votes by congressional district. The only other state to give its citizens that much say in the presidential election is Nebraska.
Until this year, Maine voters got microrepresentation—total democratic control to the people in each district. Now, their votes get swamped by New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Democrats desperately want to disenfranchise rural voters, who vote Republican and hold conservative values more than the rest of the country—and they’re well on their way. “With 209 electoral votes committed, NPV is now 77% of the way to being enacted,” warned SOS.
Already, the NPV has been adopted by 17 states and Washington, D.C.: California, Illinois, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.
Don’t think Republican states would take this lying down. Red states could respond by dramatically inflating their vote totals—and they could do it legally.
Voters have historically cast, not one ballot for president, but “one for each of the state’s electors,” writes Sean Parnell of SOS. For example, Alabama has nine Electoral College votes: It could multiply the number of votes cast for Donald Trump by nine. “Doing so in 2020 would have meant the Trump-Pence ticket received just under 13 million votes (instead of about 1.4 million votes) while Biden-Harris ticket would have been reported as getting nearly 7.65 million votes (instead of about 850,000 votes),” he wrote.
Worse yet, a legal challenge could already be impossible. When Texas objected to 2020 presidential election shenanigans, the Supreme Court ruled states have no “judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.”
In other words: Don’t like it? Tough.
“Fun fact: States have no obligation to stay in the National Popular Vote interstate compact. They can exit by passing a bill to repeal it,” pointed out Save Our States.
Fun fact: States have no obligation to stay in the National Popular Vote interstate compact. They can exit by passing a bill to repeal it.
— Save Our States (@SaveOurStates) April 17, 2024
America needs to get out of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, before it becomes a compact with strife, conflict, and national disintegration.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”