The key dates on the election calendar, including post-election events that end with the meeting of the members of the Electoral College.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for the end of the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, but acknowledged that its dissolution was unlikely to ever actually come about, according to a pool report.

"I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said. "But that's not the world we live in."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appeared to double down Thursday on his support of getting rid of the Electoral College — despite getting smacked down by the Harris campaign.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops. Walz

Walz previously stated the Electoral College “needs to go,” prompting the Harris campaign to clarify it is not a position for the campaign.

In the process Walz came up with a remarkably clear, concise and eloquent articulation of the virtue of America’s Electoral College, a constitutional bulwark that Walz, like most Democrats, wants to abolish.