Ocasio-Cortez under fire for comments on Electoral College
DEFORESTATION. HITTING BACK ON TWITTER SAYING HE IS OVERREACTING FOR POLITICAL REASONS.>>WE ARE COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, MANY VOTES HERE, AS YOU CAN SEE. VERY EFFICIENT WAY TO LEADERSHIP OF THE COUNTRY.>>Sandra: THAT WAS ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS WOMAN CATCHING HEAT IN THE HEARTLAND OVER THAT INSTAGRAM VIDEO WHERE SHE IS CALLING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF RACIST SCAM. THIS IS THE FEDERAL JUDGMENT DEALS A MAJOR BLOW TO PROGRESSIVE EFFORTS TO REPLACE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WITH A NATIONWIDE POPULAR VOTE. LET’S BRING IN THE FORMER COUNSEL TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WHO JOINS US NOW. GOOD MORNING AGREED TO HAVE YOU HERE THIS MORNING. YOU HEARD THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN THERE MAKE THAT POINT. WHAT DID YOU THINK?>>I THINK IT IS PART OF A SERIES OF EFFORTS THAT ARE INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT TO GO AFTER THE FUNDAMENTAL PARTS OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND DELEGITIMIZE THEM AND USE INFLAMMATORY TERMS. OBVIOUSLY, THERE ARE COMPLICATED BUT SOUND ARGUMENTS FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WHICH WERE LAID OUT IN “THE FEDERALIST” PAPERS BY OUR FOUNDERS. I THINK THIS SERVES THE COUNTRY WELL FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, CERTAINLY RECKLESS TO CALL THEM RACIST. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM, SHE IS FREE TO ADVOCATE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO DO SO BUT THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE IS REALLY, REALLY DESTRUCTIVE COMING FROM A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.>>Sandra: MEANWHILE, EXPAND ON WHAT WE ARE SEEING FROM THIS FEDERAL COURT AS YOU SEE ON THE FoxNews.com HEADLINE UNDERCUTTING PROGRESSIVE EFFORTS TO NULLIFY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, WHERE ELECTORS CAN VOTE FREELY. WHAT WAS THE DECISION MADE?>>THIS IS ABOUT FAITHLESS ELECTORS AND THE RIGHT OF MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN AND LOTS OF FOLKS ON THE LEFT WHO DON’T LIKE THE SYSTEM HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR WAYS WHERE STATES CAN MAYBE FORCE THE HAND OF THEIR ELECTORS AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK MOST LIKELY. IF YOU WANT TO RESTRUCTURE THE SYSTEM, YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT USING THE TOOLS THE FOUNDERS GAVE US WHICH IS ARTICLE FIVE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMENDMENT PROCESS. OBVIOUSLY SPEAKING OUT IN PARTICULAR, THE SENATOR REACTING TO WHAT SHE HEARD THERE, SHE SAID ACTUALLY TWEETING DIRECTLY AT HER, ELIMINATING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WOULD SILENCE OUR VOICES HERE IN IOWA AND MANY OTHER STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SHE THEN MADE THE CASE AND THAT TWEAK, THIS IS JUST MORE EVIDENCE OF HOW OUT OF TOUCH THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ALL OF THIS IS YOU LOOK AT THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED AS WE QUICKLY APPROACH 2020?>>IT IS JUST UNFORTUNATE THAT WE SEE THESE TWO SIDES OF THE COUNTRY COMING APART AND THE LEFT CASTING MUCH OF THE FEDERAL STRUCTURE, THE EXISTENCE OF THE SENATE, THE EXISTENCE OF THE FILIBUSTER, THE SEPARATION OF POWER, ALL LEGITIMATE AND ALL PART OF A CONSPIRACY WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO COME TOGETHER AS A COUNTRY WHICH IS WHAT THAT STRUCTURE IS MEANT TO DO. IT IS MEANT TO CREATE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEOPLE FROM GREAT CONCENTRATIONS OF WEALTH AND POWER THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHERE CONGRESSWOMAN COMES FROM. IF IT IS MEANT TO MAKE THEM APPEAL TO THE BROAD SWATH OF THE COUNTRY TO RURAL AREAS AS WELL AS URBAN AND HOPEFULLY THE SAME WOULD HAPPEN VICE VERSA.>>Sandra: IT IS BACK AND FORTH IN THE DISCUSSION AND AT
She calls everything racist A LIE we need to call them out for what they are Communists!!!
This woman personifies all that is wrong with America, kick the squad out and everyone's a winner!
Was the electoral college racist when Obama or any other president since the history of America won via electoral college?
What is wrong with this lady…? Why all the hate of our Constitution, and our laws…We can't have mob rule here which is true democracy….We are a Constitutional Republic not a democracy…We have laws not mob rule….
She just crapped all over the mid-west!
The Electoral College, should be abolished, in this day and age. That these dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. QUOTE America, need to be honest and have complete fair election. Where the
Candidates, that received the majority votes, for the Presidency Of the United States Of America, should be the majority vote of its Citizens of the United States. I understand,
the rationale, of why the Electorial College, was first used. However, it is actually being used, to silence the voice of the Majority Of Citizens voice, of who should be the Potus.
US, cannot truly be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, unless the majority vote is willed and the Electorial College is banished completely. Why should
a few people, have the say, who should be President Of the United States Of America, when the Majority, have already spoken? The Electorial College, is a Kryptonite, to US
Democracy. US, is a melting pot and many States in America, population, have truly grown, as far as people. There is no need, for the Electorial College, in this day, in age.
That, goes for Democrats, Republicans and Independence. Either, Congress go ahead, in abolished it or allow that to be on the ticket, where all of US Citizens, who can vote,
be allow to cast a vote, to keep the Electorial College or Banished the Electorial College, from US Elections. The Majority of votes, for it or against it, wins. It is funny, that
many of us hear, that the majority rule, in very segment of society, in US and yet folks, in high office, in Government, is against it because many of them know, it is a weapon,
to use, against the majority of people votes, to determine the outcome of the United States Of America Presidency. This is not about Fox News, CNN, or any other media
company. It is about United States Of America, truly living up to, that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation "America" under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Quote. Stevie Wonder, can see, that the Electorial College, should
not be, in this day and age. What are you afraid of America? Are you afraid of having an honest open election, for the Presidency Of The United States Of America, where the
majority of its citizens, that have the right to vote; will, would be done and they have the power, to place a candidate, in Office of the Presidency Of The United States?
In US, there are some States, that have more people and thats a fact. However, many States in America, have grown tremendously and at the end of the day, it should be the
will of the Americans majority votes, that determine the win, for any candidate, to become the POTUS, in US. The people, that mainly get to vote, in the Electorial College, are
mainly white and are connected to the establishment. Once again, US is a melting pot. No offense, to anyone white because true love, see know colors and my love for you,
is equal to any race people, in the world. If, a person truly love God, then that person will truly love all people. If, one claim to love God and yet hate people. He or she is lying
and is in darkness.
Trump says electoral college is a disaster. I agree.
She is SO DUMB!! So sooo sooo dumb. It truly pains me. Her desert video makes me cringe. I can’t with this moron.
Cortez needs to crawl into a insect interested hole and just die.
Sospacio whortez, sheez so fffunny..🙄
she is dumber than a box of rocks. At least rocks are useful.
Remember: Communists want absolute rule.
Democrats never make the same mistake twice Democrats make it five or six or seven Times just to be sure!
"What is a garbage disposal for"? Is that a cabbage or my head? We should listen for enlightenment from O spacio Whortez.,I've learned so much..🤣
AOC, YOU NEED TO SUPPORT
OUR CONSTITUTION.
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR
OATH YOU TOOK WHEN YOU
TOOK OFFICE?
You seem to think as a
"FREESHMAN" that your
ideas are better than those
that designed our "Constitution". We are a free
nation. "We The People" do
not appreciate your "Socialists" ideas.
God, someone please vote this crazy nut out of congress!!!!
Thats funny. The electoral collage wasn't racist when Obama won it twice!
Why we gotta babysit through this biches rant ? Just fire her !
The 2nd Amendment was put in place because of people like AOC, Omar, etc folks. The founding fathers knew that people like this could potentially come alone. Well, here they are!
I nominate for the pay cuts of AOC and all the others of Congress who do absolutely nothing but complain and race bate instead of doing their jobs! The more AOC speaks the more toxic gases are produced and the planet may die in 12 years so someone needs to put a muzzle on that imbecile fast
The problem is polling in major cities are rigged, electoral college stays – they can't rig every polling station in America. Weren't those old white men of days gone by brilliant.
"The Founders never used the words" republic" and "democracy" interchangeably. They had studied various forms and systems of government from throughout history in order to establish a system of government that would best deter a tyrant (in their case King George III), or a group of tyrants, from denying God-given rights to Americans. Interestingly, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution do not use the term democracy to describe our form of government. Furthermore, "Neither the Articles of Confederation nor the Constitution set up direct democracies." The authors of these founding documents disagreed on many points, but on one point they ALL agreed wholeheartedly: "The United States is not a democracy, never was, and never was intended to be. It is a Republic." The following statements represent a small sampling of what the Founding Fathers thought about democracies.
Alexander Hamilton asserted that "We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon morph into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship." Hamilton, in the last letter he ever wrote, warned that "our real disease is DEMOCRACY."
Thomas Jefferson declared: "A DEMOCRACY is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
Benjamin Franklin had similar concerns of a democracy when he warned that “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” After the Constitutional Convention was concluded, in 1787, a bystander inquired of Franklin: "Well, Doctor, what have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
James Madison, the father of the Constitution wrote in Federalist Paper No. 10 that pure democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Fisher Ames, the known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
John Witherspoon, pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state, it is very subjet to caprice and the madness of popular rage.
The Constitution itself, in Article IV, Section 4, declares: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.”
George Washington, republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
Thomas Jefferson, the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
John Marshall, but between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it." – Alexis de Tocqueville
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government: so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." – Thomas Jefferson
"There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment." – John F. Kennedy
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." – Patrick Henry
The other thing that wasn't even mentioned here is giving the electors the ability to vote their conscious was also put in for a reason. They can disagree with the popular vote even for their districts if they feel they are better serving them. This has only changed an election one time in 1796. The electors who change their vote may be fined, removed, or other consequences in more than half of the states and DC. In most instances they are not selected/voted for again to be an elector. So if they change their vote I am sure they have good reason.
Removing this only allows later laws to replace the way electors are selected or voted in and if they can't change their vote to vote their conscious then the party at the time with the most political capital may always win the election. When I first heard about they didn't have to vote with the popular vote for their area I felt the same way. That it was a fraud. When I read why this was added in the first place and the amount of times it has been used and the amount of times it has actually changed the election it changed my opinion. Sometimes all it takes is a little education on your part to reason why these laws were outlined in the first place. It's not racist, it's not a fraud, it is another fail safe made to protect the citizens.
What an idiot!! She is a member of a body who's sole purpose is representing members in a district to make sure they have a VOICE! DUH!! You are as stupid as they come AOC!!
Popular vote: Clinton – 65,844,610 Trump 62,979,636
"We should have a revolution in this country! The phony electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation."
Donald Trump – 2012
Is Alexandrea wants socialism so badly then why don’t she move to a country that can supply it to her like Cuba.
AOC actually graduated Grammer school????
This women…..
Dumb da dumb dumb.
If Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez doesn't know what a garbage disposal is and how it works, how can she possibly understand the Electoral College?
Democrats suck. I can't believe there are starving people in the world and we have idiots like these in positions with a supposed education being paid to make decisions for the wellness of people!!
Not everyone votes though, so electoral college works fine
She swore to uphold the constituton, which calls us a "republic" her rants break her oath of office.
Can she be voted out or removed from office already?
AOC and the Radical Socialist Democrats want to tear up the Constitution and impose a socialist dictatorship. Just listen to what they are saying. They are very vocal & open about It. Any vote for a Democratic is a vote for Socialism.
She a racist I wish we could deport her to Cuba were she would be happy
Basacly her little video says if you dont live in a big city you dont matter. She needs to go away. Fast
She’s s disgrace
My god, everyone knows that switching to a popular vote gives heavily populated urban areas too much power over our elections. If you don’t live on or near the coasts, Texas or the Midwest you’re vote won’t matter. And what do you know all west coast states are blue, most east coast stares are blue & most of the Midwest is or leans blue. Hmm I wonder why she wants to abolish it.
Her middle name is Ocrazyo for a reason.
If this wowan wants to live in a socialists country so bad she should move to cuba, she would fit right in politicaly
Isn't this dingbat facing a primary challenger?
She's the ultimate reptilian
Why does she still have a job? Or anyone else in there for that matter
AOC stupidity personified.
The U.S. will end up being divided and cause a new civil war.
aoc is advocating for the government to pay off the electorial college student loan debts for all americans
She is clueless
She has proven over and over again that she's a moron. Even a garbage disposal blows her mind. That alone should tell you how tiny her brain is.
i wanna taste AOC's cat
Somebody’s hits her head so her brain ( If she has one 🤷♂️ ), Perhaps can start to work!!.
The way to advocate for the electoral college is to say it demands candidates to build coalitions. The constituent parts of the coalition are necessarily are different parts of the country. Genius!
The only thing I see racist is her that why she keeps bringing it up she the racist.
Can't this chiclet toothed, meely mouthed piece of garbage just disappear?
I get the distinct impression that if someone sat down with AOC and asked her how the Electoral College works and why the Americans have it as a crucial component of their election process, she wouldn't know.
I only think she is right when it comes to Oregon. Portland have lost themselves
It is mind boggling that every time, this so called educated female opens her mouth that the most ignorant crap spews forth. And that she was actually ELECTED into Congress. I mean ,she did talk before and during her election??? SMH!!!! AND WHY AS A FRESHMAN CONGRESSWOMAN IS SHE ALOUD TO SPEAK IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS????!!!!
Holy fuhh.. this chick is mental
AOC your fired. Leave it to Dems to completely throw out our constitution just do they can cheat & weasle their way in.
This is how an Uninformed and uneducated Democrat representative who's never read the Constitution or been taught the reason for it craps out of her mouth. With her saying that about the electoral college and the Constitution, she should be impeached! If you cannot represent your constituents by the RULE OF LAW and The Constitution you are not upholding your oath.
One Idiot and her followers will not change the US Constitution,ever!!!!!!
This woman has no idea how our Government works.. and we have Checks and Balances up and down the Government.. Electoral college is there so that a few Radical places (New York, California) don’t decide the President Completely. Now Trump Obviously went right for the Electoral votes and not the Popular Vote.. It amazes me that everything she says needs to go, right now needs to go.. we must stay strong, starting to think we have seen one heads of the beast or the Harlot on its back..
Aoc make me a drink n dance that sh*t on over here you uneducated
Overpaid underworked freshman!
Please if there is a god in heaven
Vote the squad out for goodness sake!!!!!
DEMSHIT PARTY WANTS E C GONE SO LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK CAN ELECT ALL PRESIDENTS!!!!!GO AWAY!!!!!
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Change my mind.
Hahaha crazy biatch.
“He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!” (Nov. 6)
“The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” (Nov. 6)
“More votes equals a loss…revolution!” (Nov. 7)
-TRUMP
I think that anyone running for Congress should take an IQ test and must have at least an average IQ to run!
This is what happens when you vote a brainless, clueless twat like AOC into office.
See what happens when you elect stupid people to Congress? Idiot voters should know something about government before they elect another dumb one.
Just a reminder that a democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.
How can AOC raise her right hand to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" when she daily bash the system? Huh? This crazy witch and the rest of the squad are the ones who need to be impeached…since day 1.
The electoral college is "racist" to her and others like her, because she can not understand how the system works…Wanna bet? She is too stupid to be in Congress.
I will love it when AOC loses to a "shoe shine" boy, who challenges her in her reelection bid. How is she going to go back to her district and explain how she worked for them?
What a idiot she is
Uh didn't we learn in history that the American Forefathers DID NOT trust the common populace as they can be easily influenced
She's dumb. I mean really dumb. That same electoral college voted in BO and Clinton. This is just more TDS. MABA. Get this ridiculous excuse for a congresswoman, out of congress. I don't care if it's a Democrat or a Republican, we need somebody with a brain.
AOC is racist, she hates white people.
Man! She is dumb….
Democrats are the racists
So smart she thinks any empty desert is the electoral college
Aoc smarter than a pile of sh*t but dumber than polished turd
AOC uses the word racist like a whip the real racist cracked on the back of slaves to get them to obey.
Why are you the media giving this AOC idiot the time of day ??? Same ole stir the crap pot.
She really believes there is a Electoral College around. She is on an USA Tour to find it. We wish her the best of luck. It's out there AOC, you can do it.
Everytime she talkes she lowers the bar on intelligence!
Alexandria Occasional Cortex at it again.
Racist? AOC's video looks like the southwest where it's 50% Hispanic.
Simple solution: break up the Union
A true socialist, change the system to suit her ends so she can win.
DEMS CALL EVERYTHING RACIST . I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT IT MEANS ANYMORE .
Let's think it through – the left want to eliminate the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court to 16 Justices why? To block Republicans from power, as the first step to single-party rule. As in dictatorship.
Vote her out
Everybody says stupid things everyday. Even the right. Then, they weave up an analogy and make it dumber and a bigger issue. Eventually the garbage just gets thrown back into the house.
I live in rural NY and I hate the fact that the tiniest part of my state is in charge of telling me how to live.
Yeah sure. Until it aids the democrats then they'll want it back. What a bunch of cry baby loosers. There are a lot of people in this country that do not live in the few big cities that would apparently decide the fate of all. Guess they hate this country so much that they want war. Cause this is how you get war.
Someone ask this treasonous brain dead nitwit bartender AOC to go back to trying to fit a round peg into a square hole ASAP!
Here's what needs to happen, anti American's should not be in Goverment! They are idiots!
Robert Shaffer you need to grow up and stop judging people on the basis of their looks. I find the least attractive people are the first ones to criticize how others look cause it makes them feel better about themselves. I don’t hate kelly Conway or Ann Coulter cause there ugly but there disgusting human beings who spew out nonsense for a living. Your president who you worship is an absolute freak show who embarrasses is on a global every day and it’s getting worse, only his cult following think otherwise
She is the product of sleeping through history class.