Imagine President-elect Donald Trump carrying New York and California and sweeping New England and other blue states to rack up 520 votes in the Electoral College.
Ironically, it could have happened if a movement largely funded by left-leaning organizations got its way.
Already, 17 states and the District of Columbia have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, agreeing to allocate their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote—regardless of which candidate wins a majority of the state’s vote.
That membership has a total of 209 electoral votes, within striking distance of the 270 needed for the compact to snap into effect. (A tally of 270 votes or more in the Electoral College is what elects a president.)
The interstate compact still needs enough states to produce 61 more votes and reach 270 before states would be bound to the interstate agreement.
As of Friday morning, Trump had 312 electoral votes to 226 for Harris, according to the website 270 to Win. Harris won all 17 states, plus D.C., that already are part of the compact. Those states and the nation’s capital would have had to give their........