Rebuilding a strong transatlantic partnership. Hello there welcome youre watching r. T. International where theres one story dominating today the u. S. President ial election much tighter than everybody was expecting and still no results so lets bring you what we know so far and bring you up to speed with the race is tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 230 the magic number that they need is 270 that would get them into the white house and this is all down to what is called the Electoral College system in the United States because each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living there and whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state does win the only exceptions of maine and nebraska which are allocated electors based on local district. Heres what it looks like so far on a state by state basis many of my old. States from pennsylvania wisconsin michigan and georgia are still cou
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Listen live on the cspan radio app. Election night on cspan, your place for anunfiltered view of politics. Good evening to the students in our audience and our viewers, welcome to coaldale college, im, vicepresident of the college. The college of course is based in coaldale michigan and we are near the colleges washingtondc campus. Also the puppy school of government. The nations capital. You can find out more about our programs at dc. Hillsdale. Edu. But where in the library with Michael Antone who is a college lesser Research Fellow here and were going to be discussing his new book the face, america at the point of no return welcome my area glad youre here. You might know michael from his previous work, he wrote my election, under certain time, he was working the private sector at the time. He wrote under a pseudonym until he was outed and then you went to work for the Trump Administration in the national securitycouncil. That worked, they saw the election 2016 as an x essential ques
My name is haben girma and i am a disability rights advocate, lawyer, speaker and author. My book is called haben girma the deaf blind woman who conquered harvard law. I haveimited vision and heing and i gre up in this world. I was born and raised in cafornia and am still living in california. Im talking to you from my living room. I dont actually work here. I work at the desk where i sat down to write m book. My deaf blindness is not what made life difficult. It was able is that made life difficult. This is the belief that disabled people are inferior compared to nondisabled people. Its not true. We are not inferior. But ableism keeps moving through society saying disabled people dont matter and therefore they dont make the services accessible, dont provide medical care and all kds of unfair biases. Wh i was younger i wasnt sure what to do. Do i just accept this inferior service . T over time, i learned to advocate. I started to demand inclusion and then i learned about the disabiliti