Buttigieg Defends Abolishing Electoral College: ‘It Is More Fair for Everybody’s Vote To Count the Exact Same’

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WALLACE: "You have made it clear you want some structural changes, not just specific issue changes. One is to end of the electoral college. Doesn’t that mean, and a general election, if it was just about the popular vote, nobody would come to a state like New Hampshire because they would be too busy going to population centers like New York and Los Angeles." 
BUTTIGIEG: "No, I don’t think that would be of the effect. The reason is, we run every other election in this country and the traditional fashion when you’re running for governor of a state of any size, you go to the big cities and you go to the small towns. We don’t run governors races with some electoral college system or some counties count more than other counties. If you want to earn that office, you campaign everywhere. I think the same is true for the country, at the end of the day, it is not clear to me why a rancher in Texas should not count because they are in a state that is overwhelmingly conservative, or some but he living in Brooklyn should not count because their community is overwhelmingly liberal. Or that my city, a midsize city in the industrial midwest doesn’t have a much of a voice because I am part of a state that is not considered a swing state. It doesn’t even benefit small states. It just benefits some states. At the end of the day, I think it is more fair for everybody’s vote to count the exact same like we do and every other election that we run in this country."