In a stunning act of political betrayal, Virginia's Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger signed legislation Monday that will strip Virginians of their voice in presidential elections by tying the state's Electoral College votes to the whims of California and New York voters.
Spanberger committed Virginia to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a radical scheme designed to circumvent the Constitutional Electoral College system that has protected smaller states' voting power for over two centuries. Under this anti-American compact, Virginia's electoral votes would automatically go to whoever wins the national popular vote – even if Virginia voters overwhelmingly choose the opposite candidate.
This means that if Virginians vote for President Trump in 2028 by a massive margin, but California and New York push the national popular vote to his opponent, Virginia's electoral votes would be STOLEN and given to the candidate Virginia rejected. It's taxation without representation all over again.
"This is exactly the kind of globalist power grab that the Founding Fathers designed the Electoral College to prevent," said one Virginia Republican leader. "Spanberger just made Virginia a colony of California."
The timing couldn't be more telling. With Trump's successful second term agenda exposing the failures of Democrat policies, desperate blue state governors are scrambling to rig the system before 2028. They know they can't win on ideas, so they're trying to steal elections through legal trickery.
Constitutional Crisis Brewing
This compact represents a direct assault on federalism and the careful balance of power that makes America work. The Electoral College ensures that presidential candidates must build geographically diverse coalitions, not just pander to a few mega-cities packed with radical leftists.
Virginia patriots fought a revolution against this exact kind of tyranny – having their destiny controlled by distant elites who don't share their values. Now Spanberger has volunteered to make Virginia a vassal state of the coastal establishment.
The question is: will Virginia Republicans and constitutional conservatives fight back against this electoral theft, or will they let one radical governor sell out the Commonwealth to California billionaires and New York socialists?