Push for national popular vote movement gets boost from conservatives
Leaders of a new conservative campaign advocating for the national popular vote movement are seeking to promote the effort at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week.
Several leaders of the group Conservatives for Yes on National Popular Vote, which formed earlier this month, are seeking to educate those on the right about the movement and push back on perceptions that such an effort would largely benefit Democratic candidates.
“CPAC is a very tough crowd for us because the knee-jerk reaction for most Republicans is to oppose this,” said Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party who plans to promote the national popular vote effort at the conservative confab.
“They think Hillary Clinton and Al Gore would have been president. Well, the fact is we don't know what would have happened,” he added, referring to the Democrats who won the national popular vote in 2016 and 2000 but lost the presidential elections those years.
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