This morning. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, call 202 7488000. If you support President Trump and Vice President pence, call 202 7488001. If you support another ticket or did not vote, we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us at 202 7488003, and we are always reading on social media on twitter, twitter at cspan wj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Right now once again it is saturday and the president ial race has not yet been decided. Right now, you can always go to cspan. Org to see the state of the Electoral College where right now the map says that joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes. 214, withtrump has several major states left to go, including nevada, pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, and alaska. Once again, all of the votes have not been counted, but most news organizations are projecting that joe biden eventually will take a lead that cannot be overcome by President Trump. Joe biden came out last night on friday
A lot for starting your day with the kron 00 00am morning news on Marty Gonzales. It is saturday november 7th and this morning we still dont know whos going to be the next president of the United States. But the number of ballots that still need to be counted is quickly winding down and well have the latest for you on that coming up in just seconds but first want to start the hour with a quick check of the forecast from days bar we getting some rain little clouds cooler temperatures right a real feeling of fall coming our way marty got that right thats going to be around all into next week as well. Now the picture that we have going on right now still dealing with some cloud cover kind of left over for some rain that played with us from yesterday and thats going to be a possibility through the weekend to women quickly retired that shot of rain but a lot of dry air still to negotiate through 2 compared to be speaking with the system like this again live shot coming in from u c berkeley
Current president s rhetoric and work to ensure the peaceful transfer of power on january 20. Barry, theack with cofounder and president of National Popular vote. Barry is here to talk to us about his groups effort to promote the National Popular vote rather than the Electoral College to elect president s. Good morning. Thank you very much for giving me to time the time to talk about the National Popular vote plan. Host tell us about your organization. What is the mission of National Popular vote . Guest the mission is very simple. The mission is to guarantee that whatever president ial candidate sees the most votes in all 50 states and the District Of Columbia is elected the president. So, we want the president to be elected by the National Popular vote. States e in all 50 you have the vote in all 50 states and the District Of Columbia and that is the winter. Home without my constitution and the cspan copy of the constitution. One giveso section state legislatures the exclusive right
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
Peculiar way we count the two nonconsecutive administrations of Grover Cleveland in the 19th century. All 44 of those president s have been males. All but two of them have been white protestant males. , of the 44, have been elected to second terms, which is a room entry indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives beginning in the 18th century have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached and two of those in the lifetime of many people here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that, i mean the president is electedne of the 536 officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, and theers of congress, president and Vice President im treating as a single click on entity. So the president is one of 536