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    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes the Electoral College

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    Less than a week before Election dayKentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he believed a popular vote system would be “a better form of democracy” than the Electoral College.

    Beshear made the remarks at Team Kentucky’s weekly news conference, saying he would support any change that “gets us closer to every state that is part of the presidential election.”

    “I don’t think the Electoral College will be dissolved anytime soon, but certainly a popular vote would be beneficial to Kentuckians, making sure that every voter in Kentucky feels that their vote for the presidency counts,” Beshear said.

    This year, all eyes are on on the seven swing states which is expected to determine the outcome of who will be sent to the White House. Kentucky is not considered a swing state, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to win the red community again. In 2020, Kentucky it was the first state to claim a victory for Trump, who took 62 percent of the state’s vote.

    Switching to a popular vote system, Beshear said, would mean more national candidates would come to Kentucky and “every American” would “be an important part of the election.”

    “I think it gets us closer to a place where we can govern in a way that lifts up all Americans, where we’re not pushed to any extremes, where we don’t erase crazy things that some candidates may or may not say . , but that we would really have elections for all Americans,” Beshear said. “I think in order to do that, we would ultimately have to abolish the Electoral College.”

    At a rally of Fayette County Democrats earlier this week, Beshear made similar comments to reporters and said the country needs to “get past a place where seven states don’t decide the presidency in the future.”

    Beshear is not the only political figure to support the move to a popular vote system. Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz has previously called for an end to the Electoral College and there is a national movement to do so with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

    NVPIC is an agreement between 17 states and the District of Columbia to award all of their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the general popular vote.

    Reach reporter Hannah Pinski at @[email protected] or follow X, formerly known as Twitter, at @hannahpinski.

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