The 2020 United States Senate Debate live from South Carolina etv studios in columbia. With just four days until election day, South Carolina has already seen a Record Number of early voters, but there are still more ballots to be cast. The candidates looking for your vote republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and democrat jamie harrison. Our people from the columbia career and npr. Have 90didate will seconds to answer questions and, if necessary, i will allow a 62nd rebuttal. Mr. Harrison, we begin with your opening statement. Our motto is while i breathe, i hope. That might as well be the theme of my life. I grew up in a mobile home. Son of 18 mom. En mom. I was able to go to georgetown law school. Clyburn,rked with jim and the private sector, and now im running for senate. That only happens in america. That is why this country is so great. In that time, we had senator Lindsey Graham, who i respected, who admired, because he could rise above the political fray, but senator graham has c
Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
All of their mailin ballots, so we are were seeing big tranches of numbers being released. With 50 reported. Look at that. It is a dead heat. For more on the i were importance of florida, we spoke to correspondent joe. They may count their ballots early, early as in terms of our time in the evening. If trump loses florida, its pretty much game over. You know, theres ways to get a win, but it would take a lot of gymnastics. So thats the one to watch. Now, its super close, so, you know, theres no guarantee either way. Now, again, there was a big push from both campaigns to reach out to black and latinx voters in florida, and looks like right now President Trump is doing well in counties with large latin communities. If it is close like it is now, they still have a lot of ballots to count, and it could bleed into tomorrow morning. What about the early vote . We know that typically goes to democrats. A lot of it for President Trump had to be turnout today in person on election day, when re
Everywhere. It does seem, as i said, that mr. Biden has a slight advantage with a slim lead in several crucial states, but the contest will go on in the form of recounts and legal challenges. Republicans are in a strong position to maintain control of the senate, they made big gains in the house of representatives. Of course, the main, unsettlinged question remains the president ial race itself. On thursday night, President Trump claimed victory. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a president ial race, a very important president ial race. Gerri now, the president s typically combative style drew the usual pearlclutching from the media, Major Networks cut away from his remarks to protect their viewers. Now, its also true that President Trump made
Political institutions and a commitment to the traditions of democracy. But on the other hand, it saddled us with some obsolete 18thCentury Institutions. Foremost among them is the Electoral College. Back when they set up the Electoral College, the gap populous andeast most populous state, you had a 51 ratio. Today it is well over 601. The Electoral College is biased against the most populous states and biased in favor of the smaller states because no state, no matter what its population, gets less than three Electoral College votes because votes are determined by the number of congressional representatives plus the two senators. So the small states have just one member of congress, but they also have two senators. That is three Electoral College votes. It distorts our political system. Now, why the Electoral College . Why did the framers set this up . Like anything else, there are multiple reasons. The framers loved the common people, but they did not love them all that much. They bel