electoral colleges are like points, which means we each have 53,535 electoral colleges in all 50 states. each state has so-called electoral colleges depending on its population, for example , a state with a large population like california has 54 electoral colleges, the total of these electoral colleges, any candidate who reaches 270, i.e. 50 plus one electoral college, wins the election. and in such a way that the law that wienertik aleh means any person who even if he wins a state with a difference of one vote , he will take all the points of the electoral colleges of that state. for example, in a place like california, maybe mr. biden will get 4 million votes, and mr. trump will get 3 million votes because he he got 3 million votes and no electoral college will be allocated to him. and all those 54 electoral colleges will be given to mr. biden and the winner, and for example , it is the same in other states, that is, in a state like texas, where the republican will win, mr. biden will not get an electoral college if he gets 2 million votes. and in general, it is the electoral college

electoral colleges are like points, that is, we each have 53,535 electoral colleges . in total, 50 states, each state has these electoral colleges depending on its population , for example, a state with a large population like california has 54 electoral colleges. colleges, any of the candidates who reach the number of 270 it means that 50 plus one electoral college will win the election, and this is the law that winertic law means that any person who wins a state even with a difference of one vote will get all the points of the electoral college of that state. for example, in in a place like california, maybe mr. biden will get 4 million votes , mr. trump will get 3 million votes, because he got 3 million votes, no electoral college will be allocated to him, and all those 54 electoral colleges will be given to mr. biden and the winner, and for example in other states, the same means in one state like texas, where the republicans win, even if mr. biden gets two million votes, he still does not get an electoral college, and in general, it is the electoral colleges that

because he got 3 million votes, no electoral college will be allocated to him and all those 54 electoral colleges will be given to mr. biden and the winner . if biden gets 2 million votes, he still won't get the electoral college and in general, it is the electoral colleges that show which candidate can win, for this reason, because we have some states that are traditionally republican and some are democratic , there are about seven states where the competition is very close and competitive. who will determine who will win the election . and for this reason, the two candidates focus a lot on those states and their election campaigns and revenue discussions are focused on those states so that they can make the election results their own. very well, thank you very much, sir mr. houshmand, thank you for accepting our invitation. speaker of the us house of representatives removed biden from the presidency. proposed to mike johnson considered biden's situation dangerous for america. the wall street journal also reported. biden's poor performance in the first election debate with trump has wor

their electoral votes, these guys demanded to be let into the state capitol to cast michigan's electoral college votes for trump, which is not the way it works because trump lost michigan. biden won. but nevertheless, these republicans were pretending to be the real electors and s demanding to be let in. and that police officer stopped them, and he was very polite.ol he was like the soul of he patience.e he was very kind to them, but he was very, very firm with them. >> so you are telling us we can't enter? >> yes. >> okay. would you say that on the record for us, please?sa >> [ inaudible ]. >> what did he say? >> he said we can't enter. di >> what i said was per the capitol commission, per the governor's office, and per the speaker of the house, per the speaker of the senate, the capitol is closed unless you hec have an office here to conduct i business today or if you are taking part in the electoral college process.oc anybody else is not permitted to come in. se >> we're electors. we're electors. >> the electors are already ec here. they've been checked in. en >> well, not all of them. >> the

of course if you thought you were going to take the electoral college in a landslide and you did not would not matter but every electoral vote is going to matter which is why i'm having trouble understanding why all of the possible lists the news media has been playing with include the man trump turned into little marco. >> little marco. do you know in florida they hate little marco rubio so much. he has kind the people of florida into voting for him. i do not think they will do too well. they are angry at him. >> marco is not a negotiator, i watched him melt down and it was one of the saddest things i have ever seen. >> jd vance of ohio poses no such problem on a ticket with trump, like many republicans that worship trump, jd vance and marco rubio were not thrilled by trump's emergence as the republican front runner in 2016. >> we are on the verge of having somebody take over the conservative movement and the republican party who is a con artist. >> he is going to americans that are struggling and hurting and implying i am fighting for you because i am a tough guy. this guy inherite

of course if you thought you were going to win the electoral college in a giant landslide and you diduld not matter, but every electoral vote is going to matter. which is why i have been having trouble understanding why all of the possible vice presidential list that the news media has been playing with include the man that donald trump turned into little marco. >> little marco, little marco. you know, in florida they hate little marco rubio so much. he has conned the people of florida into voting for him. i don't think he's going to do too well. they are angry at him. he could not be elected dog catcher. marco is not a negotiator. i saw him melt down and i tell you it is one of the saddest things i've ever seen. >> j.d. vance of ohio poses no problem on a ticket with donald trump. like many elected republicans who now worship donald trump, j.d. vance and marco rubio were not exactly thrilled by donald trump's emergence as a republican front runner in 2016. >> we are on the verge of having someone take over the conservative movement in the republican party who was a con artist. >> thi

a democrat really has to win the popular vote by 3 or 4 points to win the electoral college, which is what besides the presidency. and so if a democrat is breaking even or behind in the popular vote, there is no way that they win. and so that's the state of the raise right now and find people, the democrats, we're hoping that bite wouldn't come out and make the prosecute the case that gets dropped and change the dynamics of the race. and that way they fail to do that. they sent me in concrete, the perceptions that biden is just not up to it. and so the democrat panic. right? some great analysis attorney, john jordan, also overseer at the stanford hoover institute. thank you for your time. the pleasure of the me. well, polling stations have opened across

as soon as possible if donald trump won the electoral college.ald trump wouldn't even have to ask her to do that. clarence thomas won't just hit a brand-new motorhome for resigning from the supreme court. will give him a private jet. whatever it takes. clarence thomas will live the life of an ultra rich man for the rest of his life, life he has always wanted to live point the rich man's life. and then there is 74-year-old samuel alito. who would be convinced with some financial inducement to lead the supreme court so that he, too, could be replaced by a 40-year-old republican right wing extremist who would extend the trump court rule another 40 years. yes, your vote means possibly 40 more years control of the supreme court. samuel alito's wife would then be free after her husband left the court to yell anything she wants at her neighbors. but she might then be rich enough to live in a gated community that would lock her off from any exposure to anyone other than extremist trump republicans who share misses alito's views of life, including her pub

so where are things right now in the electoral college? well, the fact of the matter is joe biden's beth best path to victory runs through the great lakes. you see these yellow states right here. basically, if you're looking at the electoral college at this particular point, it seems that down trump has head head-start on joe biden, but this is why these three states are going to be so important. and i have heard that the great lake battlegrounds are awfully nice this time of year. so maybe i'll have to go and visit. but the question is, where did things look in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin? it is, once again tight, tight, tight. look at this in pennsylvania, on average, donald trump's head, but by just two points, look in michigan, it's tied, looking wisconsin, it's tied. so the fact is, yes, donald trump has a head start on the electoral college compared to joe biden. but joe biden has a path. it may be a narrow path, but if he wins in wisconsin michigan, and pennsylvania, and given everything else you know what it gets too, he

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by 74 electoral college votes.iden is not the president.■ç i am looking at the infrastructure in the states. but also, what is the trump campaign doing? is that enough for donald trump to have had a good performance, but shaky content? on the debate stage, if the campaign does not have an structure? >> all of that is true. that is a positive path for it. i guess the last question here is you said this last night, you and i were talking and i said look. this is all fantasy football and unless and until the people closest to joe biden have a this is not working conversation. and i don't think they're going to do that. i am just got checking with you. or in public or private by chuck schumer, hakeem jeffries, all those fellas. >> i asked multiple times again today. i called up folks from the convention community$çthis morning and said are you looking for a new nominee? and they resoundingly said no. joe biden will be our nominee. and i don't believe that the campaign apparatus or people closest to the president are sa

was happening in these floating states, how much they tried to influence these voters in the electoral collegen these floating states, and there were precedents when in some in the elections, they thought that albert gore had won, and then everything was over, so to speak overplayed, so it cannot be said that everything has already been decided, but as for what was happening there, i watched, well, you know, when the president, when there... biden says, don't behave myself, let's not behave themselves as children, and biden says, and you are a child, that is, from the last century there is a theory of rational choice, which believed that the voter looks for certain rational grounds for his election, that is, he psychologically convinces himself that his election was, his choice was rational, but everything that happens... in recent years shows that the voter is leading himself extremely irrational, when biden says that trump has moral standards like a two-horned cat, and biden, and trump answers that look at his son, who is in trouble with the law, and and and the court decided that his action

and he said if donald trump wins the electoral college again, he will be in a position to immediately appoint at least two extreme republican members of the supreme court who will need to extend the life of the trump court for another 40 years. >> these threats to birth control and ivf are not in our liberal imaginations anymore. they are really real and these decisions, these very personal intimate decisions are now being made by nine unelected judges, one of who flies his flag upside down and one of the others drives around in a $267,000 gift on vacations. i do think we are wondering what can we do about this. >> elect me again. i tell you why. and i am not just saying that. the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees, two more. he has already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of the individuals and the idea that is he reelected, he will appoint two more with flying flags upside down is really -- really mean this. >> could this be the scariest part of all of it? >> i think it is one of the scariest parts. the supreme court has

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cheney moved to wyoming, so they didn't lose any electoral college votes. so if trump were to pick marco rubio as his running mate, one of them would have to move away from the state of florida, randi kaye. thanks very much appreciated. joining us now is republican debate coach and strategist brad o'donoghue, former chief strategist two, michele bachmann is presidential campaign. it's worked for six republican presidential candidates, including mitt romney. doesn't make any sense you, that rubio is reportedly involve at least allegedly on a policy level, informed president trump's debate prep. i mean, just watching him being decimated by chris christie. there's is painful well, everybody has a bad debate every now and then, but marco rubio was pretty good. and in the 2016 debates and more importantly than that, he's been involved in very significant detailed policy issues as united states senator. and so my guess is he's helping president trump get up to speed. heat on some of the policies that he might get asked about in the debate. and sharpen maybe some

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he will win the electoral college and we will preserve democracy.ep towards that. >> this provides a foundation that is different from other endless debates. a lot of people live. lying can be effective. it can work. it over time, it tends to fade. i can argue that in a lot of different settings. here is someone who apparently lied, speaker mike johnson in 2015 said what he meant, what he felt. trump lacks the character and moral center needed in the white house. now he says the opposite, he made a pilgrimage down to the courthouse which was tense and hypocritical of him because he is the one who warned the lack of moral center, the type of thing you could be prosecuted for is this, and here it is happening. >> you have marco rubio. he has done a 180. you got ted cruz, he's done a 180, mitch mcconnell, you know, the list goes on and on and on of people who have said this man is a danger to democracy. he should not be present. he is unfit. you know? he is a psychopath, sociopath, he is a congenital liar. he is a malignant narcissist, whatever you wan

and the other one, a crime for the original electoral college of donald trump. we can't always do justice to history but we can slow down a bit and feel something has just happened. how do you take this in? >> i was at the university of delaware. and jordan kleper was there. the comedian. he came on stage. everybody had that advanced notice but it was like punches. one and two, three, four. and because there's advanced notice everyone kind of leaned forward like the rest of the country to find out what was going to happen next and it's devastating. former president trump is now in this ivory tower of guilty of 34 counts as he has to wheel into the republican conviction. there's nobody that gets hit by felonies that feels okay about that. jurors now have to be fearful. so it's again the aauthoritarian tactics of trump to intimidate everybody that doesn't agree with his will. that's going to look like in history that this is the time the beginning of the end of donald trump in the sense of, this isn't two impeachments. these are peers in 24 americans, we can't tru

all the states were casting their votes, these guys demanded to be let in to cast michigan's electoral collegeich is not the way it works because trump lost michigan and biden won. but these republicans were pretending to be the real electors and demanding to be let in. and that police officer stopped them. and he was very polite. he was like, the soul of patience. very kind to them. he was very, very firm with them. >> he is so patient. the electors are here and you're not them. he stops them from what they were going to do. get themselves into the state capitol. that was in 2020. that was the middle of the effort to try to overturn the election results and have trump stay in power though he lost. i say that looked like a crime being committed and an important one because those fake electors have been criminally indicted for what they did there. for conspiracy to commit forgery and election law forgery. the 16 fake trump electors were all charged with those felony counts. and in that criminal case in michigan, there were 11 other people besides the fake electors who were listed as unindicted

one point wasn't clear whether it would go first or not or go it all, a crime for the original electoral college election of donald trump, which is not classified as part of a campaign conspiracy. return to the presidential historian and the vanity fair -- we can't always do justice to history but we can slow down a bit and feel something has happened. how do you take this? >> i was at the university of delaware and jordan klepper was there, a comedian, he came on stage and people were sitting there and everyone had advanced notice. but it was like punches. one and two, three, four. because the was advanced notice, everybody leaned forward in the country to find out what would happen and it's devastating. president trump now is this rare ivory tower of the only president charged with 34 felony counts as he has to roll into a debate and into the milwaukee convention. and he can frame it anyway he wants. it's a terrible embarrassment because nobody that get hits with felonies that feels good with it. i thought for a minute, even though he was moping out of court, i thought history will show that h

president biden has 226 electoral college votes locked up, president trump already has 235.six states that can go either way readily. and as you look at them and rank 'em from left to right idealogically, wisconsin's most on the left, nevada and arizona are most on the right. but pennsylvania's the one that biden cannot win and get to 270 unless he gets it. if he gets it, i mean, he might have a big sweep. but if trump wins georgia and pennsylvania, it's over. he's got 270. it's real simple. and there's 12 combinations of those 6 states that trump can win by, all 3 state combinations. president biden only has 9, and 3 of those are 4-state combos that won't work because they require him winning conservative, more conservative wins -- ones but not the more leftist ones. so it's really a tougher road. the reality of pennsylvania is two the sections of the state dominate it in terms of swing, the five counties around pennsylvania, and that's the part that president biden needs to focus on. and the northeast five counties that represent the area around the 8th congressional distr

obstruction of this official proceeding, the certification of the electoral college. this is going to be real test for the court's conservative textualists who argue the way to interpret a statute is to read the plain meaning of the text and give the meaning life. if you read the plain meaning of this statute. just read the words it just talks about official proceeding which this was. the certification of the electoral college but now we see the court's conservatives doing gymnastics to be like no, no, it wasn't meant for this. let's look at the purpose of this statute. i think that will be really interesting. what it means for jeffrey fisher who the defendant here who has challenged the conviction is that he could see his conviction go away if the court agrees with him that this was not the purpose for which this statute was intended. but for the other january 6th defendants, many of whom have actually pleaded guilty. they may have actually waived their rights to appellate process. so they may not be able to have do-overs to go back. but i mean, it is a really intere

were about 45,000 votes that if they'd gone a different way would have made it a tie in the electoral college, even though biden won by about 7 million votes in the popular count, which of course doesn't, doesn't matter. >> but also remember in 20 hey, 20, we were mid pandemic, right? i think that really hurt trump in 2020, biden was the candidate of change because trump was the status quo. now, weirdly, because he's been president trump is the candidate for change that's interesting. >> yeah. are you wrote out in the article and it did. i started thinking about that. it does to many people feel like trump is the new person on the scene. and there's sort of an amnesia about some the the michigan that went on. yeah. no, i mean, he had is four years. and how much did your life really change? right. but if you want to turn the page, biden is the page, right? >> and that's and that's a big problem from also, if you are in so many democrats are and understand and so many independence and somebody never trump republicans if you are attuned to the awfulness of donald trump i find them quite awful it

they were essentially the runner up to whoever became president and the electoral college, which meant that we had often often we only had this once a president and a vice president from different parties, different philosophies. i know that may have even been rivals, as adams and jefferson were running against each other. needless to say, jefferson wasn't invited to a lot of cabinet meetings either. after that, of course, they amended the constitution to create the system that we have today in which the vice president is on a ticket with the president. so they are, at least in theory, on the same team. but that doesn't make the job that much more appealing. the first vice president to succeed to the presidency after the death of a president was john tyler. he's not much remembered today and probably for good reason, but john tyler was part of the ticket with william henry harrison. you probably remember the slogan, right? tippecanoe and tyler, too. well, tyler was the tyler of that. and when harrison failed to wear a coat, his inauguration and died a month later, suddenly tyler was pr

race, it's not bad for trump to be tied with him, he lost the popular vote in 2016 and one the electoral collegements on the popular vote referendum but the polling is tight and that's what the big reasons this debate is such a high-stakes moment. maria: trump has been saying it's gotta be a landslide so big that you can't really get, let me get your take on kamala harris, is it a reach to say given all the gaffes from joe biden is a reach to say if you're voting for joe biden you're voting for kamala harris? >> i run into this all the time people say i like what trump did but i don't like him personally and i would prefer not to vote for him but biden can string two sentences together, something happened to him she would be an unmitigated disaster. as bad as i did numbers are, her numbers are worse, if she's a drag on the democratic ticket but there's no way to replace her and they won't but it will be a factor in people's mind and a highlights how important trump's choice is, people have got a look at the person and say if something happened to trump, that person would be up to it unlike if so

way, for the republican party and if the nominee dropped out after the election and before the electoral college mates, you still have electors who are democrats and electors who are republicans. they would get, they would decide the replacement for the nominee if the democratic candidate or the president elect drops out after the electoral college has met, then the constitution finally kicks in. and the vice president elect will be inaugurated. so it's three different scenarios, but up until election day, it really is in the hands of the political parties away and came mark that was excellent. we thank you thanks for having me what are your thoughts hit me up on social media. i am on twitter now, x usually rely on that during the course of the program, but i'm on all the platforms a little one-sided, aren't you, michael? it's unbelievable that these two are the best either party can come up with to lead the country over the next four years. i don't get the part that says a little one-sided. wayne mciver, the issue of the day, you might not like it, wayne is the president, the incumbent presiden

, electoral college for governor, they'd never have a democratic governor because because the outer counties, the more rural counties are very republican oriented. so quiet as it's kept, no. okay. in the democratic primary, you have a self-funded white guy candidate, david trone, whose argument was, i may not be who you want, but i am who you need, right? let it was sort of a biden argument. i who you need to beat the republican didn't win african american woman one. now, she's 11 points up over the republican who was a very popular republican governor, very dependent. larry hogan, he's a person who even donald trump, doors to me said, i don't want it has a great reputation in the state, but she's still 11 points up. why? because her argument was i may if you don't ask for who you want, you'll never get who you want and who you want and that argument is prevailing. so i really do think it depends on where you are. the strength of the candidate on his own or her own, and whether there's enthusiasm for that candidate. i think that theory is still prevails. >> the theory that a l

because of the electoral college, these states will have an outsized influence in the north america electionsaking to voters in the key swing state of georgia. out in the suburbs of georgia, it is voters who will decide donald trump's fate, notjurors. rachel is an independent voter who leans republican. that's right? really, he's guilty? they found him guilty? guilty on all 3a counts. all 3a counts. donald trump's now been convicted. does that factor in to how you will vote in november? i did not have any idea that he... i i honestly did not think he would be convicted. just because, i know that sounds ridiculous, but he's got away with everything else so far! we already knew he was a bit of a liar and a cheat kind of before he got in! it is date night for conservative couple ron and mickey at their local spa. their peace and quiet is momentarily disrupted to take in the verdict. wow. what's your reaction, ron? i'm not surprised at all. because i think that he was guilty as well. but i'm... i'm pleased, yeah. i am. mickey voted for donald trump last time — not this time. i think he's a comple

>> it was always going to be tight because of the electoral college. >> i still don't think donald trump, who has never won a national majority is going to win a majority this time and his team is smart enough to know that they should engage in micro targeting. a very small numbers of people in four or five states to try and thread that needle of the electoral college, which is what he did in 2016 and which hill he couldn't do in 2020 and that he's going to try to do again, i think a couple of things have to be born in mind. first of all, it's still, it's not even summer yet but also that the polls show that people who follow politics and are likely to vote and are engaged actually give biden and all the people who don't pay much attention to the news, who are not particularly reliable voters put trump ahead. and if i were running a presidential campaign, i think i'd rather have the likely engaged voters on my side going into the election. but this is i've said for a long time, this is an election that's really let me not about policies anymore. >> we've, we've kind of been a post policy

pete: in our process, the electoral college elects the president. ens, the electors that go to washington dc even though they are biden delegates -- will: biden votes. pete: they are casting a vote for gavin newsom. pete: they are talking protection for democracy. i know you are voting for biden but you are really voting for someone else. not as easy as it sounds on television. this is likely to end up -- pete: adds up to a they are saying we are staying in. the alternative is sheer chaos. the last slide of who might be waiting in the wings, the first black female president, would be historic. will: trump up 10 points. gavin newsom the latest polling something like 17 points. pete: it's not going to happen. if you're confused you are confused, we are confused. will is self-conscious about his suit and how it fits. i think it looks real nice. it looks good. will: next thing you know i'm going to have, you know. more "fox and friends" in just a moment. ♪ oh, my leaffilter? i just scheduled an appointment online and the inspection was a breeze. they exp

15% of the vote in four national polls and must qualify in enough states to earn at least 270 electoral college votes. he's not there yet. nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston joins us. larry, thanks so much for being us. kennedy's vp pick, really well known in the bay area. she's attorney nicole shanahan, really known for her divorce to co-founder of google, sergey brin. she got a lot of money from that divorce. are those dollars helping rfk and his bid to get into this debate and become president and become president? good evening. janelle. yeah, those are a lot of dollars. some people say it's up to $1 billion. but you know what money can only go so far. and as you mentioned, 15% recognition as a potential candidate is required in four national polls. he has three, he being robert kennedy jr. he has three. and time is running out. he only has three more days to find that fourth poll. more importantly perhaps we're talking about 270 electoral votes that he needs. in other words, states that he's qualified in where if he won all of them, he would have enough to win the election. long s

governments in different parts of the world and its, uh, i wanted how of, you know, how the electoral college system works in the us. where for example, you see in different rooms various cases, including the year where president trump was elected into office that the popular vote in the us. what one is another person to be the president but against, or will they have from to be like to that or to be, to round the office as a president. and that also violates the rights of the masses in the us. but the, the, the us is not talking about dad, or even while of watching the us presidential debates. the, the, the, the very few choices that americans have a, for electing a president doesn't probably doesn't seem very democratic to a lot of other nations where the majority of people's votes matters. but we all know how the us wants to, or us as rhetoric a and actions against that or to independent ration. the nations have been going on for as long as us history. we just have about 30 seconds. so i just want to sneak in just your thoughts on, on next week on the, the real off. if a reform is does at

when republicans realize they cannot win national elections, even with the electoral college, that theyg a new generation of voters and the average suburban voters, at some point survival will kick in and they will change. but as far as optimism, it would take a long time. you have to beat them again and again. >> part of the issue is that trump is super transactional and he's using that to his advantage. we know that trump makes everything that much more obvious. if you donate to me, and i win, i will make sure your taxes go down. and we've seen billionaire donors lineup. people who said they did not like him or he was damaging to the party they line back up and say, we are on board.>> you look back at 2016 there were a lot of people who said, but we like him is he's not going to be like that. he's going to be able to spurn those tactics, and yet here we are watching him go to big oil and say you give me $1 billion to get me elected and i will give you everything you want. let's not forget there still some people -- you cannot get more elite than meeting with oil executives and offerin