Democrats plan to leverage their massive midterm election victory to sideline the Electoral College and decide the next president by popular vote. If they are successful, they could fundamentally change how both parties approach presidential elections and entrench left-wing control of the executive branch by bucking more than two centuries of electoral precedent.
The party’s gains in the state governments of Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, among others, have put the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact within reach. That’s an agreement designed to accomplish through state legislation what supporters have been unable to achieve through a constitutional amendment: electing the president via the popular vote, not the Electoral College as it has traditionally functioned. Its activation could transform the 2028 presidential race and trigger a court fight over the rules governing it.
