insights. i am ayman mohideen in new york. don t forget to catch me sundays at nine. with my good friend ali vouch. good, evening ali. good evening, my friend. we ll see you again tomorrow. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the winner of the 2017 2016 election was donald trump. you will recall that while he won the electoral college, he did not win the popular vote. and in fact, in the weeks after election day, the margin of his popular vote loss kept growing. every day, every week, hillary clinton s lead in the popular vote kept increasing. it was one and a half million. it was 1.7 million. it was 2 million. ultimately, hillary clinton would win the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. and the reason for this was california. you see, california famously takes a very long time to tally all its ballots because there are a lot of ballots there, for one thing. and as they counted their ballots, hillary clinton s popular vote margin kept increasing. this
the founders were designing a government for a country whose entire population was the same size. the same size as the population of brooklyn today. it was inconceivable to the founders that the unexplored areas of the continent would eventually include a state called wyoming, with a population smaller than many of the country s biggest cities. and that even deeper into the unexplored territory, they would eventually be a state named by its spanish speaking settlers that would eventually have a population to rival the size of some of the most influential countries in the world. and the economy of that state alone would grow to be the seventh largest economy in the world, if it were a separate country. the founders would have recognized that the 40 million people of california, being restricted to voting for the same number of senators as the 580,000 people of wyoming, is a crime against democracy. we long ago outgrew the senate formula of two per state, which has evolved to a
allows mobster tear down statues of lincoln and for the authorities to remove statues of lincoln preemptively. if you can t look up to lincoln, of course you have this void. anyone could step into a void this big. as i say, if we get the past into some kind of proper light, we could do the future better. if we just leave it empty, anything can happen. finally i want because you talk about the lack of context, a lack of understanding historically, i just i read your book and i m reminded though of a lot of things that i ve read, whether it was from harold bloom in the western cannon or the closing of the american mind and i want to read this quote to you. it s from his 1987 book the closing of the american mind , this is what allen moon discussed on the changing perceptions of the founding fathers. he said radicals succeeded in promoting a popular conviction that the founding was an the american principles are racist. thus, openness is driven out the local deities leaving
endorsement is shaping the party. alex mooney carrying the endorsement of the former president. as we do in these primary nights, john king and the magic wall. what are you seeing in west virginia? talk about why that is so interesting. two primaries in west virginia. you mentioned this. a trump versus the establishment match. alex mooney versus david mckmc mckinley. u west virginia lost a seat in the reapportionment. trump endorsed alex mooney. he is the more conservative of the two house members. the real reason is because of two votes from mckinley. mckinley likes the bipartisan approach. voted for the biden infrastructure bill. from trump s perspective, mckinley voted for the independent commission proposed to look into the january 6 attacks on donald trump. david mckinley is persona non grata. you see mckinley with a narrow lead. we are early. trump is for mooney. pro-trump forces. we are counting, 11% in. mckinley, a lead over mooney.pe cl close race. may say biis a b
that s the part that, for me, i just say, let s do something now. let s be united and do something. yeah. i understand. i want to play for you something that senator chuck schumer said about this, about people showing up outside the homes of public officials, basically, he was saying it comes with the territory. so, listen to this. there s protests three, four times a week outside my house. that s the american way to peacefully protest is okay. and so, do you agree that peacefully protesting outside of a judges , say, or a supreme court justice s home is okay, or you re uncomfortable? listen, i respect senator schumer so much. i have a lot of respect for all members of congress. the fact of the matter is, judges are in an unique situation. we re on the front line protecting democracy every single day. the numbers have shown, this is not hyperbole, we are literally taking the bullets to protect democracy and the rule of law. my son paid for it with his life. judge left