Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter and Instagram to call for the abolishment of the Electoral College – further indicating that the process was a “racist scam” that needed to go. During her posted video, AOC was featured driving through the desert landscape on an empty highway jokingly eluding to how “many votes there are out there.” Fox News took to the offensive calling out Senators Sanders and Warren, both of whom have joined with AOC in illustrating the election process designed by our nation’s founding fathers.
According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established the process in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the United States President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.
So how is the Electoral College designed? Five hundred thirty-eight electors make up the body, with a majority of 270 electoral votes required to elect the President. A state’s electoral makeup quals the number of members in its Congressional delegation; with the electorate for each member in the House of Representatives plus each of the states 2 Senators. On March 29, 1961, the Twenty-third Amendment extended three electoral votes to the residents in the District of Columbia.
Senators Sanders and Warren, along with AOC, have repeatedly attacked the Electoral College and have demanded an election process via a national popular vote. Such an endeavor would instantly shift political power to more populated states, such as heavily Democratic areas as Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and yes, AOC’s hometown of New York City. Many underpopulated districts found in America’s Heartland and Midwest would see their votes less impactful; something that Liberal Democrats would favor given these area’s pro-Conservative values.
On August 23rd, AOC took to Twitter to lay out her “Failure of 5 Points,” which outlined her “reasoning” for abolishing the Electoral College.
2) This common claim about “if we don’t have the Electoral College then a handful of states will determine the presidency” is BS.
a. It’s the *EC itself* that breaks down power by state, pop vote decentralizes itb. The EC makes it so a handful of states DO determine elections
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 23, 2019
3) LASTLY, this concept that the Electoral College is provides “fairness” to rural Americans over coastal states doesn’t hold any water whatsoever. First of all, virtually every state has rural communities. NY. California. Much of our states are rural.
But very importantly…
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 23, 2019
4) We do not give electoral affirmative action to any other group in America. Do Black Americans have their votes count more bc they have been disenfranchised for 100s of years? Do Reservations get an electoral vote? Does Puerto Rico and US territories get them? No. They don’t.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 23, 2019
5) The Electoral College isn’t about fairness at all; it’s about empowering some voters over others.
Every vote should be = in America, no matter who you are or where you come from. The right thing to do is establish a Popular Vote. & GOP will do everything they can to fight it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 23, 2019
It would appear that the bartender, turned congresswoman from Queens, slept through her high school civics class and during her tenure at Boson University. Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington took to AOC to ask for believing that “it’s a ‘scam’ to allow anyone but coastal elites” to determine how elections are decided.
Ocasio-Cortez (and many 2020 Dem candidates) think it’s a “scam” to allow anyone but coastal elites have a say in our electionshttps://t.co/13w0Uyxjh5
— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) August 21, 2019
AOC, Sanders, Warren and the other misfits of the Liberal-Left, continue to disseminate misinformation in any format that pleases their base and their Socialistic Agenda. Abolishing the Electoral College, by AOC’s own admission, would intentionally neglect the minority, particularly, those states with lower populations that have conservative roots, and boasted overwhelming support for Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election. This new push is a prime illustration of just how far “left of center” and dangerously close to falling off the cliff, that the Democratic Party has shifted. The constant vote pandering of “Pocahontas,” the “free everything to everyone” platform of “Bolshevik Bernie,” to AOC’s “Assault of Fundamental Freedoms” should scare the bejesus out of every citizen in our country!
American is under attack, not by White Nationalism or Islamic Jihadist – but by our own “citizens.” The Desperate Domestic Democrats will stop at nothing short of tearing the very fiber of our nation’s freedoms in favor of single-handed Socialist State – run by out-of-touch, honorary degree receiving, Elitists, aimed at our Democracy’s Demise!
Stay tuned for more coverage and updates from the Liberty Loft as Liberal-Progressives continue their attack on America’s Freedoms!
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