Elias Isquith & Hadas Gold (12.19.16)

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🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Bill Press welcomes Elias Isquith, Jack Jenkins, & Hadas Gold to discuss today's Electoral College vote, the role of religion in electing Trump, & what Trump's off-the-record meeting with journalists means for the future of the White House press corp - all the big highlights from this Monday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network.
0:11.7	We start out today with the big news of the day.
0:16.3	It is the day we choose the next president of the United States. Ah, you thought we did that on November
0:24.5	8? No, we did not on November 8 because on November 8 over 2.8 million people more than 2.8
0:35.8	million people that voted for Donald Trump actually voted for Hillary Clinton.
0:40.2	So if you took the vote on November 8, Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States.
0:46.9	But that's not the way it works.
0:49.6	Sadly, here in this country, you know, there were some, a lot of old bad stuff in the original Constitution.
0:58.5	Let's be honest.
1:00.0	Women couldn't vote.
1:01.4	Boom.
1:01.7	We changed that.
1:03.9	Senators were elected by state legislatures instead of directly by the people.
1:14.9	We changed that. African Americans only represented two-thirds of a person and couldn't vote. We changed that. The people's vote didn't matter.
1:22.9	What really mattered were electors who represent the number of members of Congress and senators
1:31.0	from the various states.
1:33.0	They were the ones, those elite politicians who actually elected the president of the
1:38.4	United States.
1:40.5	Oh, we didn't change that yet.
1:43.1	That's the only thing left over, and we haven't changed it.
1:46.0	It's crazy.
1:47.0	It's idiotic, but that's the way it is.
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