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Umm. This is fake news.

Nevada is already a “winner take all” state, as are all of the states except Maine and Nebraska. Whoever won the popular vote in Nevada already got the state’s 6 electoral college votes, as Clinton did in 2016.

So this law changes nothing.

I just saw something else, Section 2 of the 14th Amendment reads

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The point of this was to insure that states did not deny former slaves the right to vote for Presidential electors, if they did then they would lose Congressional representation. So for an example is Alabama had 6 Congressional districts, but denied former slaves the right to vote, and 50% of the over 21 males where former slaves, then Alabama would lose 50% of their Congressional seats.

So, if one of the states in this compact sends electors other than those selected by the majority voters in that state, they will have done the same, denied those voters the right to vote for Presidential electors.

So lets say Colorado voters select a GOP candidate, by the Dem candidate wins the national vote. If Colorado sends electors for the Dem candidate those electors will be reduced by at least half AND Colorado will lose at least half of its Congressional seats!

Deciding elections by popular vote would be even worse than your map would suggest. It would mean a system where elections mostly driven by votes in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami metro areas. With a nation-wide popular vote, mostly Republican rural votes even in states like Texas get washed out by the mostly Democrat metro urban-suburban vote.