Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for scrapping the Electoral College on Monday.
During a CNN town hall event in Jackson, Miss., Warren responded to a question about voter disenfranchisement.
“My view is that every vote matters. And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College,” Warren said.
“You know, come a general election, presidential candidates don’t come to places like Mississippi,” she said. “They also don’t come to places like California and Massachusetts, right? Because we’re not the battleground states.”
The two-term senator said she supports a constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote and the repeal of “every” voter suppression law on the books.
Warren joins fellow presidential contender Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., in advocating for an overhaul of the electoral process that has frustrated Democrats running for the White House in the past. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College, and thus the election, in 2001 and 2016 respectively.
Warren also used her national platform Monday night to address a state issue: Mississippi’s flag. When asked whether she believed the southern state should adopt another flag sans a Confederate battle emblem, she offered a one-word answer.
“Yes,” the former Harvard Law School professor said.
Warren’s stop in Mississippi is part of a three-state swing of the South, including events in Tennessee and Alabama.
