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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about Trump running for the House and the speaker's bargain....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

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0:20.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

0:29.4

an idea that apparently former President Trump is kicking around.

0:37.3

It's the idea of running for the house,

0:39.7

running for a house seat,

0:41.4

and then becoming Speaker of the house.

0:45.8

That's a concern, more so than you might think.

0:50.9

Not too long ago one of y'all sent me some information on a pretty counterintuitive theory.

0:59.0

And the theory is basically that transparency when it comes to how your representative votes, well that's actually bad.

1:07.0

You shouldn't know how they vote and nobody else should ease either because it it eases corruption

1:16.4

if a lobbyist or the speaker knows how the different representatives vote.

1:24.0

It's an interesting theory.

1:25.0

I'm not completely sold on it, but it's an interesting theory.

1:28.0

It's put out a person I saw talking about it was a Harvard-based researcher James De Angelo.

1:37.4

So he provides this example and he calls it the speaker's corrupt bargain.

1:43.0

Let's say you're a new, newly minted representative.

1:47.0

You just get to Congress, you show up and you are there to do what your constituents want you to do.

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