Against the Electoral College. It is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. Which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. I do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. If you take a course on the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process is used to select how our chief executive officer works. Also because of how it structures have elections turns out. Just like how we started our discussion on president ial nominations by talking about the history and processes and a deep dive into the process rules, the rule nominations today. We should start a president ial election the same way by taking on how we select a president. Youre reading for this week was George C Edwards book on why the Electoral College is bad for america. It is in its third edition, after all. In the book, edwards explains how the El
Growth rate and job creation, now if you put the fed statement and higher jobless claims together, thats whats pushing stock prices down this morning. Look at it. The dow is off about 100, s p 60, nasdaq about 31, more on that in a second. All right, did you watch night 3 of the Democrats Convention . It was hate trump night. Speaker after speaker layed into the president in personal terms. He gets the blame for everything. Seems to me like the democrats have not gotten over their loss 4 years ago. The president was live tweeting all the way through. We will show you both sides of this, of course, but seems to me like all of the democrats have is hate trump. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart look at the red ink on the markets, first of all, down across the board but not that much. Lets get right at it. Larry kudlow, director of Economic Council at the white house. Larry, negatives this morning. More than 1. 1 million jobless claims, the fed says the virus is hurting growth, back
President of the United States. [applause] election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Your host is political analyst Richard Scammon. Richard this is Richard Scammon in washington. With me are professor howard honeyman of Howard University Howard Penniman of Yorktown University and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. But perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions on these conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an American National president ial nominating convention. One observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. We know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. But Howard Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an American Convention . Howard the National Convention is the time of the nom
My name is jimmy carter, i am running for president. [applause] tonight, tonight i have some good news for you. We will have a democrat in the white house in 1977. Ladies of the convention, probably i present before you the name of jimmy carter as the party, of the democratic the next president of the United States. Election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Analystt is political richard scanlon. Richard inis is washington, with me are professor Howard Penniman and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings and touche and. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. Before we do either of the detailed discussions we have to spend a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of the nominating convention. One has said these are real ideological struggles told by circuses. Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the cosession of American Convention . Convention national is the nominating
Positions his administration. Chris we will talk with the president s daughterinlaw, lara trump, Senior Advisor to his campaign, and we will ask joe bidens Deputy Campaign manager Kate Bedingfield about his plans to go back on the campaign trail. Then, we will ask our sunday panel where the race stands one month ahead of the first debate. And our power player of the week. Texting is the new handshake. Campaigning in the age of covid. All right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. Its now just 65 days, nine weeks, until election day in the first debate between President Trump and joe biden is less than a month away. With the president officially accepting his nomination, this Long Campaign is finally entering the intense homestretch. In a moment we will talk with top officials from both campaigns about where the race stands as we head into septemb september. But we with fox team coverage, david spunt at the white house. And jacqui heinrich. Lets sta