Democrats spent four years calling Trump a threat to democracy.
Now Spanberger just made Virginia's 13 electoral votes irrelevant to anyone who lives there.
What she signed – and what it means for every future presidential election – is something Virginians deserve to understand before 2028.
Virginia's Votes Now Go to Whoever Wins California and New York
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an agreement between Democrat-controlled states to hand presidential elections to whoever runs up the biggest margins in the country's most liberal cities.
Here's the mechanism.
Member states pledge to award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote – not the winner of their own state.
Virginia could vote Republican by 10 points.
Under the compact Spanberger just signed, Virginia's 13 electoral votes still go to the Democrat if New York and California deliver enough ballots.
Los Angeles and New York City decide everything.
That's not reform. That's a takeover.
Democrats Have Been Building This Since 2000
The scheme didn't start with Spanberger.
Maryland launched it in 2007, the year after Democrats convinced themselves the Electoral College was the only reason they kept losing presidential races.
They weren't building a more democratic system.
They were engineering a workaround – one that sidesteps the Founders' design, skips the amendment process that requires 38 states and a two-thirds congressional majority, and never once asks American voters whether they wanted it.
The compact's member states are now approaching the 270 electoral vote threshold that would trigger it.
Virginia's 13 push Democrats significantly closer to the number that eliminates small-state power in presidential politics permanently.
This Runs Straight Into the Constitution
The Founders didn't design the Electoral College by accident.
They built it specifically so presidential candidates couldn't win by piling up votes in a handful of population centers while ignoring the rest of the country.
The compact blows that up – and does it without clearing the constitutional bar the Framers required for exactly this kind of arrangement between states.
Article I requires congressional approval for interstate compacts that affect federal power.
The National Popular Vote Compact has never gone to Congress.
Heritage Foundation legal scholars have argued for years it's unconstitutional on its face – an end-run around the very amendment process that exists because the stakes are this high.
Spanberger didn't ask Congress.
Spanberger Called Herself a Moderate Seven Weeks Ago
This is the same governor who stood on national television during Trump's State of the Union response and told America she represented a new, reasonable Democratic Party.
Seven weeks later, she signed legislation stripping Virginia voters of any meaningful role in future presidential elections – handing that power to the most liberal populations of the most liberal states in the country.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn called her accurately: "Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate but governs as a left-wing activist."
The compact Spanberger signed doesn't reform the Electoral College.
It abolishes Virginia's role in it.
When California Democrats and New York City machine politicians decide the next president, they won't just be doing it with their votes.
They'll be doing it with yours.
Sources:
- "Breaking: Abigail Spanberger Signs Law to Circumvent Electoral College for Virginia Voters," The Post Millennial, April 2026.
- Heritage Foundation, Legal Analysis of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, quoted in Breitbart News, March 2026.
