Jan 6 Committee Member Raskin: Electoral College Is An Undemocratic Relic Of White Male Slave Owners

Rep Jamie Raskin: “ I mean, it’s no mystery or secret to anybody. I mean, my very first bill I introduced as a state senator in Maryland was for the national popular vote interstate compact. So again, I speak only for myself here. And, you know, totally apart from all of this, I’ve taken a position that the Electoral College is an undemocratic relic of the early Constitution… We started out as a slave Republic over white male property owners, but it’s been through social and historical and political struggle that we’ve opened America up”