The Electoral Count Act.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Momentum to reform the Electoral Count Act is growing in both Republican and Democratic circles, a change some say would help avoid the chaos of January 6 and ambiguity about how presidential elections are decided in the U.S.
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| 0:40.6 | This is Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about the Electoral Count Act, some of the bipartisan consensus |
| 1:11.7 | forming around reforming it, and as always, some news from the weekend. |
| 1:16.0 | So before we jump in, we'll start with our quick hits for the day. |
| 1:26.3 | First up, a gunman died after an 11-hour standoff with law enforcement where he took four |
| 1:31.9 | people hostage inside a Texas synagogue. The man was identified as a 44-year-old UK national named |
| 1:38.4 | Malik Faisal Akram. It is still unclear whether he was killed by law enforcement or killed himself. |
| 1:45.2 | Number two, seven U.S. senators flew to Ukraine in a show of solidarity as concerns rise that Russia is planning to provoke war along the Ukrainian border. |
| 1:54.1 | Number three, House Democrats running for re-election in swing districts are pushing for a new strategy to break up the buildback better plan before |
| 2:01.6 | the midterms. |
| 2:03.3 | Number four, Beijing Winter Olympic organizers canceled a plan to sell public tickets, citing the COVID-19 |
| 2:09.7 | outbreak. |
| 2:11.2 | Number five, tension between former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis |
| 2:15.6 | is said to be rising rising as the two are considered |
| 2:18.1 | favorites to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024. |
| 2:31.6 | One year after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the 2020 presidential election results, |
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