The media have declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

But under our constitutional system, it turns out that the media don't actually get to

pick who the president is.

Fortunately, we are joined by a constitutional expert, somebody who knows a lot about elections.

He will help us understand the nitty-gritty and who,

in fact, will be the president. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I am Michael Knowles. Senator, I am no constitutional expert. I did not go to law school. But I think I am right in saying this. The media don't get to pick the president, right?

Thankfully, although Lord knows they're trying. It is the voters who decide. And, you know, I got to say, so you and I are filming this on Tuesday night.

Election Day was a week ago.

We haven't done a podcast since before Election Day.

I kind of feel like Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton coming back saying,

so what did I miss?

Like, holy crap, what a week this has been.

There's never been a week like this in politics, in media, in life.

And the consequence for the nation are enormous.

You know, we've gotten a lot of messages, people asking, why didn't you do an episode

during the election or the day after the election?

And I think people sometimes forget, you are a sitting U.S. Senator, you know, you do

have a pretty busy schedule. And the events have

been changing in real time. Obviously, on election night, you had certain cable networks calling

Arizona, for instance, for Joe Biden. Then it seems like people were walking that back. Now it seems

unclear who's going to get Arizona. You had a lot of votes come in really late in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin, in Michigan.

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