Page 256 - 270 News Today

Crystal ball prediction, t electoral race neck in neck. where is a democrat most likely to get that path to 270, through michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, or do you think theres a candidate better off trying to go through arizona, florida, georgia? >> you know, honestly, alex, these are false choices. and i hear this debated, should we go through the south and west or through the midwest. the answer is you go everywhere where you have a chance to win because it is going to be difficult actually...

As you list those states, obviously those are states that voted for al gore in 2000 and hillary clinton in 2016, highlights the partisan nature of this effort but right now even with colorado announcing they are going to join the compact, 181 electoral votes, they have to get to 270 votes before this contract takes effect. they have to recruit a lot more states right now before this goes into effect and they have a long way to go. rob: if estate vote for one candidate and their delegate since th...

States here, but democrats have come up with this idea, what do you make of this, kevin? >> well, has gotten steam in like you mentioned some of the blue states, colorado, governor indicated he just signed the bill which would bring i believe the total number of electoral votes who are in the compact to 180, 181 something like that, well short of the 270 that would be required to make sure that the popular vote winner would win the 270 electoral votes required to win. rob: im sure you will say y...

Socialism, especially in the democratic party. >> the way you win a presidential campaign, 270 electoral votes, having an economic message that can appeal to middle american voters in the swing states. right now, democrats are defined by one thing and one thing only length or hatred of donald trump. weve got to continue to build an economic message that can be competitive in the general election. i think we are starting to do that. thats how bill clinton won twice and barack obama won twice and ...

Theres a reason why a lot of people didnt get out to vote. a lot of people didnt get out to vote because everybody in the media was so arrogant. they all said hillary was going to win. if you even suggested that there was a possibility, even a little possibility that donald trump might get 270 electoral votes, you were mocked and ridiculed and run from the blapublic squa. guess what that did? that depressed voter turnout because everybody was sure, barack obama was sure, james comey was sure, th...

That barack obama was named president of the united states. >> cnn projects that barack obama is the next president of the united states of america. it is now official. he has passed the 270 electoral votes. >> when you watch the tape, you can see that colbert begins to cry. and that character cant cry because thats not what that character does. and jon stewart, he loves colbert so much as a human being, he covers for colbert. >> 297 for barack obama. 139 for john mccain. were working together t...

Yes is the short answer, doubtful it happens by 2020. quick civics lesson, there are 538 electors. one for each member of the house and senate, three for the district of colombia, each state gets the total number of their congressional delegation and two senators. it takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. twice in the last five cycles the popular vote winner has lost the election. which explains the move by 11 states and the district including new york, california, new jersey to pledge...

Way to 270. you know what that means? there is no way to 270. they couldnt get me there. they might as well have given up. there wasnt any way to 270. in fact, i went to maine to get one and i did win the one but we did not need the one. we won maine, we one half of maine. remember? we have nebraska and we won both in nebraska. we won the half, we had to win in maine. we got the one but we did not we need the one because we did not get 270, we got 306-224, [cheers and applause] a state called wi...

Well, i will tell you the bottom line is, michael statistically speaking, i cohen can say whatever he wants. can tell you that fiscal unless you have some sort of year 18 the border patrol corroborating evidence. lets say michael cohen calls donald trump a racist apprehended 396,500 people. but then has some sort of recording to back it up. without the recording thats this year, griff, we are why so many people dont find him credible. and, look, the bottom line looking at a 97% increase is, the ...

Of what the intent was. i know that theres a tendency to look at that check and say, ah-ha, there it is, exhibit "a" for him violating campaign finance regulations. but theres a different interpretation. michael cohen said that donald trump and those at the highest level of the campaign never expected to win that election. by the way, that comports with my own knowledge of the trump campaign. the figure that i heard is that they thought theyd tap out at 240 and regardless half they say, they nev...