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 verdicts 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 I gotta 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

and 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? I think people sometimes forget,

you are a sitting U.S. Senator, 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

and Michigan. You had the polls counting stopping just at 10 o'clock at night, and then it was

supposed to not resume until the morning, other reports that resumed in the middle of the night.

There's just so much disinformation, misinformation, and on the legal front, obviously, there are so

many questions. I know you have been through this actually before. You were a lawyer on President

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