California Proves the Popular Vote Must Never Decide a Presidential Election

Up until Donald Trump won in 2024, Democrats increasingly demanded that presidential elections should be decided by the popular vote as opposed to the Electoral College. This movement emerged because Al Gore and Hillary Clinton (allegedly) won the popular vote in 2000 and 2016 but lost the election. There are still aggressive efforts underway to make this change, including the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which completely circumvents the Constitutional Amendment process.

Woke leftists scream and clamor that the electoral college is an outdated mechanism designed for an era lacking mass communication. They also claim it’s racist, but of course, everything woke leftists don’t like can somehow be tied to racism, right?

Anyway, I’m sure that most people would agree that in principle, the only election we hold every four years where the entire country votes on a ballot with the same four candidates would benefit from a simpler and purer form of decision-making. In the end, every American citizen should have an equal say in who will be the next president, regardless of where they live.

Makes sense, right? Ah, if it were just that simple.

You see, the current primary race for mayor of Los Angeles in California illustrates exactly why we must never allow the popular vote to decide who we elect as president.

California Maintains Avenues for Election Rigging

Instead of using a traditional primary system, where the leading candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties face off in the general election, California wanted to shut out Republicans altogether whenever possible. In 2011, they adopted the “Two Top Primary” system where the two top vote getters, regardless of party, face off in the general election.

Coincidentally, it also makes it easier to rig close elections.

As this piece is written, Karen Bass, you know, the current mayor who has presided over LA during the Palisades fires where there was no water in the hydrants, is leading the mayoral primary with 30%. This is the same mayor that won’t issue permits to rebuild, and accepts human feces on the sidewalks, homeless encampments in residential neighborhoods and exploding aggravated assault crime, which is up 22% over pre-pandemic levels.

Spencer Pratt, the TV personality turned politician with a message, is currently running second with 30%, and avowed communist Nithya Raman is third at 22%.

So, it’s pretty clear the runoff will be between Pratt and Bass, right?

Not so fast.

You see, according to USA Today, elections in California may not be decided for “days or weeks.”

The reason for this is that California counts ballots that arrive days after the election as long as they were postmarked on election day, as well as provisional and same-day registration ballots. Then, there’s the real kicker: they accept mail in ballots dropped off on election day that have no postmark or ID.

What could go wrong?

California Proves We Can Never Allow Presidential Elections to Be Decided by Popular Vote

As of this writing on Wednesday morning, Polymarket shows Pratt with a 63% chance of taking second place in the primary. Yet despite his commanding lead, the market still gives Raman a 37% chance.

Why?

It’s pretty simple, actually. The betting markets know California politics, where backroom Democrats wait until they know exactly how many votes it will take for the chosen candidate to overtake their opponent, and miraculously, that same number of votes often shows up in late, provisional and mail in ballots. Ever notice how in California, those “late” ballots always trend heavily Democrat?

Because Leftist Democrats refuse to ensure we have free and honest elections, we can never allow them to change the way we choose our presidents to a popular vote outcome. Right now, California represents 10% of the total electoral votes. It doesn’t matter if the Democrat voting majority is a million or ten million, they can never influence a presidential election by more than 10%. Thus, the incentive to cheat is limited.

However, imagine for a moment if presidential elections were decided by popular vote. It might take months to resolve, as California and other leftist states wait to learn how many votes they need to turn a close presidential election in their favor. It’s easy to envision them allowing as many illegal aliens, dead people, fictitious people and convicted felons to vote as necessary to change the election outcome.

It would be the ultimate nightmare for America, and we can never allow it to happen.