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Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a recent slate of suggestions to help Democrats win in future presidential elections, including a suggestion that the party “revisit the Electoral College.”
The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate spoke at the National Urban League Conference in Nashville last Friday, when she said Democrats should consider alternative methods to avoid “cheating” accusations from Republicans.
“I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular — we need to revisit the Electoral College,” she said, which drew some claps. “We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 District Courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”
Harris said Democrats will need to be “too big to rig,” borrowing one of President Trump’s phrases on the 2024 campaign trail.
“It means being ruthless — they are ruthless,” she continued. “We need to be ruthless too, and by that, I do not mean cruel. That is not our nature. By that I do not mean breaking the law. That is not what we do. But I do mean we must be uncompromising, and we must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things.”
Harris, a possible 2028 Democratic presidential contender, lost the Electoral College to Trump 312-226 in 2024. Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years, receiving more than 2 million more votes than Harris.
Democrats have largely strayed from past election campaign remarks about expanding the Supreme Court or taking a look at the Electoral College. A Pew Research Center poll released in September 2024 showed that 63 percent of Americans favored the winner of a presidential election being the candidate to receive the most votes, with more than 3 in 10 Americans saying they would rather keep the Electoral College as-is.
Republican lawmakers have largely opposed expanding the Supreme Court and giving statehood to Washington and Puerto Rico. Though some Democratic candidates in 2020, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, suggested expanding the court to counter its conservative supermajority, the idea never materialized under the Biden administration.
Former President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022. Although he established a commission to look into expanding the high court, that commission wrote in its final report that it took “no position on the validity or strength” of claims supporting court expansion.
Other possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidates have floated the idea of expanding the court. Up until recently, Harris’s longtime political ally California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) opposed the idea before a June interview with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, where he expressed an openness to having 13 justices on the court.
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