Elec­toral Col­lege oppo­nents say the abo­li­tion effort should be bipar­ti­san

Oppo­nents of the Elec­toral Col­lege argue that the effort to abol­ish it is bipar­ti­san and would not change if the pop­u­lar vote swung toward for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
The Elec­toral Col­lege has become an increas­ing­ly par­ti­san mat­ter, par­tic­u­lar­ly after Demo­c­ra­t­ic resent­ment in 2016, when Trump lost the pop­u­lar vote but won enough elec­toral votes to secure the pres­i­den­cy. The seem­ing­ly par­ti­san nature of cam­paigns against the Elec­toral Col­lege has, in turn, endeared it to Repub­li­cans — a 2023 Pew poll found that while 82% of Democ­rats want to abol­ish the Elec­toral Col­lege, only 47% of Repub­li­cans do.
The heavy bias has led many to sus­pect that if for­tunes were to sway the oth­er w …