“...we know the Electoral College, Erin, was founded on a rotten foundation. It was founded as an effort, as a strategy to accentuate the strength of those states who were slave states. And there’s just no justification for it now.”
That is a canard that deserves to die.
Absolutely! It had ZERO to do with slave state population- and they conveniently mix this up with the decision on the number of representatives in Congress being based on the census of the number of citizens in a State, and the proportional representation in the House... balanced by each State, regardless of size had 2 Senators only.
The Electoral College had to do with what was encountered in the old Europe— large population centers creating a “FACTION” due to the disparity in population vs. less populated areas. In order to make every province (in the US it was states) equal in the value of their decision... a group of electors was created.