The Cloakroom Preview: An Intentionally Anti-Democratic Voting System
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This is a special preview of The Cloakroom, a series made exclusively for Verdict+. Join Senator Ted Cruz and Liz Wheeler each week as they pull back the curtain on the philosophy that informs our political debates, the stories that are reshaping our culture, and the legal principles at play on America’s stage and beyond. Become a Verdict+ subscriber to get exclusive access: https://verdictwithtedcruz.com/plus.
Republicans lost a seat in the House last week as Sarah Palin was defeated by a Democrat. But this wasn’t for a lack of voters choosing to elect Palin, rather it was a result of Alaska’s anti-democratic jungle primaries and ranked-choice voting. Senator Cruz joins Liz on The Cloakroom to share his top-down analysis of this election system and examine how it came to be in the first place. Plus, what are the chances the new assault rifle ban passes the Senate?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, Liz Wheeler here. |
| 0:02.7 | So after we finish recording verdict every week, Senator Cruz and I sit down and get into |
| 0:07.9 | the nitty gritty of it all on our Verdict Plus series called The Cloak Room, where we look |
| 0:13.2 | at political issues through a specifically legal lens. |
| 0:17.9 | And what I want to do today is offer you a sneak preview of the latest episode of The |
| 0:22.6 | Cloak Room Un Verdict Plus. |
| 0:24.3 | You can also join us on a weekly basis by going to VerdictWithTedCruise.com slash plus |
| 0:29.7 | if you use my promo code Cloak Room, then you can watch for free for the first month of |
| 0:33.8 | your annual subscription that is VerdictWithTedCruise.com slash plus promo code Cloak Room. |
| 0:40.7 | And without further ado, here's a sneak preview of The Cloak Room Un Verdict Plus. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of The Cloak Room. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm Liz Wheeler. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm sitting here with Senator Ted Cruz. |
| 0:50.8 | And Senator, I want to start today just by saying congratulations. |
| 0:53.6 | We did it again. |
| 0:55.0 | The left, the mainstream media is up in arms over something we talked about right here |
| 0:58.8 | in the Cloak Room last week, the cancellation of Student Londet. |
| 1:02.3 | So I think we should start the show just by welcoming the Washington Post and business |
| 1:05.8 | insider who wrote an article about your comments, your legal analysis of whether what Biden |
| 1:11.7 | did with his executive order, canceling Student Londet, whether it's legal. |
| 1:15.5 | They joined the ranks of CNN and MSNBC who came to Verdict Plus last month when we were |
| 1:21.4 | talking about O'Burgia Fell because of what Clarence Thomas wrote in the dobs, in his |
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