Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
The illinois metropolis had given the chief executive one of the most heartwarming receptions of his career upon his arrival to address the gop convention. [applause] thank you, ike day is the theme for the thunderous welcome. The enthusiasm spills over to the convention hall, where ike and maim the old center stage, while Convention Business waits in the wings. [applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administrations twoterms of stewardship. The headline making remarks of the president concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism, or free system. He hurls a challenge at soviet premier nikita khrushchev. I challenge him to this. Will he agree to the holding of free elections under the sponsorship of the united nations, to permit people everywhere in every nation on every continent, to vote on one single, simple issue. That issue is do you want to live under a communist regime, or under a free system such as found in the Uni
Thank you. Thanks so much, anthony, and thank you to the Federalist Society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. Im delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the Electoral College be as you are aware, the constitution establishes an Electoral College for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and Vice President. Alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College will provide a practicable obstacle 2 intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and disorder. As we head into the 2020 president ial election, debates about the Electoral College once again emerge over the desired voting of our constitutions method. This debate is an important one about our republic and about our constitutional form
Thank you to the Federalist Society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. Im delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the Electoral College be as you are aware, the constitution establishes an Electoral College for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and Vice President. Alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College will provide a practicable obstacle 2 intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and disorder. As we head into the 2020 president ial election, debates about the Electoral College once again emerge over the desired voting of our constitutions method. This debate is an important one about our republic and about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of ci
Narrator it is Early Morning of the first tuesday in november. This is an american city, a city that is not very large, not very rich, not very old. It is situated in the western part of the United States, in california. Its name is riverton. The woman in the car is mrs. Dawson, one of rivertons 15,000 residents. She is principal of Public School number two, but today there will be no classes held here, for this is election day. This classroom is one of the 130,000 places the country over in which american citizens are going to cast votes today. This is the table where the voters names will be checked. The locked ballot box and the polling booth. Here it is, in the privacy of this curtained space that americans vote every four years on the first tuesday after the first monday in november, to choose the national government. Here come mrs. Dawsons colleagues on the election secondf rivertons precinct, each representing one of the Major Political parties. Mr. Schwartz, a republican, works