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hey welcome to Crossroads first off folks some very very big news my new documentary on the border crisis is now officially announced it’s going to be coming out May 9th May 9th is the new documentary very soon actually it’s called Weapons of Mass migration and in it I’m going to be exposing how the United States and the United Nations are working hand inand to facilitate Mass migration into the United States it’s being weaponized ized in my opinion to destroy the United States it’s being it’s against What’s called the again the unipolar world order and now that’s going to be out on May 9th on Epic tv.com again EPO ctv.com I’m very excited to see you all have you all see it we put a lot of work into this so stay tuned for the rest of the show I’ll be showing you the trailer for the new documentary pretty soon so now first I go into some of the stories now look you might remember that in the 2016 elections a lot of let’s say unhappy voters pointed out that Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote that’s what they said right now had the votes been counted and we just went by the popular vote they were claiming that Hillary Clinton would have been president of the United States but you know since we have the Electoral College in this country which gives a set number of votes to each state Donald Trump won the Electoral college and in 2016 Donald J Trump became president despite the popular vote right but that conflict between the popular vote and the electoral college system that did not just fade into history there have been a lot of ongoing movements pushing to enact a popular vote system in the United States and this may be further along than most of you realize already as we’re speaking right now in the United States stes 17 US states and Washington DC are currently on board with dropping the normal use of the Electoral College for a popular vote and they have a bit of a loophole they found with it to make it so they have to totally get rid of it let me explain ABC news is saying after much public debate a main law has brought the country closer to having the popular vote determine the winner of national presidential elections but it’s unlikely that will happen before nov M or even at all they’re claiming it notes further in the movement has now gathered pledges from 17 States and Washington DC accounting for a total of 209 electoral votes a good chunk of them actually and notes that the movement seeks to change the way a president is chosen without a constitutional amendment meaning because of the loophole they found they don’t need to go through the process you would have to go through otherwise if you wanted to to overturn the Electoral College they note that experts say it’s unclear what happens when enough states have signed on to this because they have 17 already and they’re trying to get more they note though that this this would not probably happen before the 2024 elections now this is what it’s called It’s called The National popular vote Interstate Compact and they said it seeks to guarantee that the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia wins the presidency meaning the normal system of the of the Electoral College is out it notes that when there are enough States pledging their popular votes to meet the 270 Electoral College vote threshold remember they’re almost there they say all the votes in those States will be added up to a national count that determines the winner of the election the national popular vote interstate compact says that will give each vote equal weight regardless of where a voter lives now in it it notes that five of the 46 presidents who came into office you know lost the popular vote including they say Donald Trump recently in 20 2016 and know it’s the compact argues that not every vote is equal under the current system because again we have the we have the Electoral College and they want more pure democracy now as you would imagine there’s a lot of different takes on this some people are pointing out that it would represent a more pure form of democracy more of a direct democracy actually it would basically mean that votes would be more attributed to individuals rather than to States because the current system of elections in the US is made to give state representation uh in of course the federal government and rather than have the state representation a popular vote be more the voters having that role and it would kind of undermine to an extent the normal system of state rights right but it would also represent a serious shift in the nature of the American Union which you know we’re a federal government that joins together 50 different states every state if you were to compare it to another Nation on Earth actually has a system of government even a military its own Governor uh every state in the US is basically a country joined together into again a union of States uh which is the United States of America right that’s what we call the United States now the purpose of the Electoral College and its original use was to make sure that the interests of each state are represented by the federal government you know to avoid a scenario where a handful of States like you know it would mainly be California and New York would dictate the direction of the entire country and of course one of the one of the concerns raised by the smaller States was you know why would we join the union if we don’t get represented the Electoral College was a way to give incentive to states to actually join the American Federation of states right the union while not having the risk of smaller States losing their representation to larger States because why would they want to join otherwise now right now a lot of focus is on Nebraska and Maine and there’s a reason for this the states these ones it’s another issue with the electoral college but these states have a split vote system Nebraska for example gets five out of the four 538 electoral College votes but it alongside Maine the only two states that do this they actually award their votes differently than the rest of the country instead of having a so-called winner take all system you know the way that the normal Electoral College works these states award an electoral college vote for each congressional district and then two votes to the state winner at least in Nebraska the Trump team actually for 2024 has been trying to get Nebraska to change this to adopt the same win or take all system as the rest of the country but so far Nebraska is not totally budging and if they do change the Democrats in main or saying they’ll adopt the same winter takes all rule so that any benefit Trump would get by changing that system in Nebraska would be undermined and basically nullified by changes that would happen in Maine now ironically though that type of pressure is also bringing proposed changes to the Electoral College even more into Focus because ironically what Trump in is doing in Nebraska and Maine more mainly in Nebraska is he’s actually encouraging them to change their system of the Electoral College to bring it in line with the way the rest of the country works but of course the other side the Democrats are using that to say well if you can change the Electoral College why can’t we basically I’ll be talking about this more though after a quick word from our sponsor experts agree one of the best ways to protect against Financial uncertainty is to diversify your portfolio learn how physical gold and silver can secure your retirement funds from today’s economic challenges with a gold Ira from American Harford gold you can Safeguard your wealth with no penalties or taxes when you transfer your current qualifying retirement accounts call now and our precious metals Specialists will send you a free information kit no cost or obligation American Hartford gold a trusted industry leader with an A+ from the Better Business Bureau 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College votes are cast by States normally you have the potential issue of dueling electors remember we talked about this yesterday where again they’re trying to make that illegal you have the issue of faithless electors like you know there’s a Democrat campaign in 2016 to get uh again Electoral College members to become faithless electors to vote for to vote against Donald Trump basically even though they were nominated to vote Republican and you also have the role of vice president to you know to count the Electoral College votes before Congress which establishes of course the new president and they already made some changes to this process let me show you how this went down this is the National Conference of State legislatures on this issue last year and it says it says days before the end of the7th Congress an Omnibus Appropriations bill was signed by President Joe Biden included in that 4,000 page spending law it was a spending law but they stuffed this into it was the Electoral count reform and presidential transition Improvement Act of 2022 or the ecra and it says that hammered out by lawmakers including Senators Joe mansion and Susan Collins again Republican and Democrat this bipartisan legislation they say is intended to provide better guard rails to govern how presidential elections res results get get from the states to the electoral college process and then to Congress and how Congress handles them once there and know that according to many the Electoral College count Act of 1887 was overdue for an over hall because it did not offer clear guidance on Counting Electoral College votes or how to resolve possible disputes I should not briefly that they’re acknowledging here that again the way that the electoral college rules were established did not clearly defines some of the different processes meaning of course is some of the narratives that Trump tried overthrowing that process is debunked by the very nature of the vague language which again they had to clarify with an act signed by Biden after the elections right but back on this it says the new law mainly addresses what Congress does after electors are sent forward from the states it creates a new threshold for members of of of object to a state of electors 1th of the members of both the House and Senate identifies the role of the vice president as solely ministerial because remember that when Mike Pence was counting the Electoral College votes he was arguing he did not have the legal right to you know maybe question States that had ongoing uh lawsuits or ongoing investigations into fraud and he said he did not have the legal right to for example decide to read the dueling electors over the other electors and because of that again which would under the Constitution normally send that to a house vote based on delegations under which Trump probably would have won the elections given the split of the house at the time um and of course it’s based on state representation not purely House Seats meaning again Republicans would have more representation uh they had to actually change this in order to say that you can’t do that the thing that Pence said he couldn’t do they had to change the law to make it so that he actually could not have but this is what it does it says it identifies the role of the vice president is solely ministerial and clarifies that Congress must defer to slates as determined by the states briefly on this for republicans and Trump this actually might work out better for 2024 because it means that you know like kamla Harris’s vice president can’t just choose to not read Electoral College votes to be honest at least for the 2024 elections this may actually benefit Republicans even more at least closes the possible loophole that could come up through that right but it notes that it also addresses the state side of the equation it codifies that the executive of each state sends for the state slate of electors the law indicates that in this context the executive is usually a governor briefly on that as well remember there was a conflict on who gets to determine who is the legal you know person who gets to send for the Electoral College voters um again during the 2020 elections there was a debate over whether it’s the governor or the state legislator the con you know local state congress basically and of course if you go by the Constitution I had believed as did many that the state legislatures were the ones right the state legislature is what gets to decide that and of course in many states the dueling electors were put forward by the state legislature whereas the state government ERS had their own Electoral College voters and that’s what caused a lot of the conflict of course with the dueling electors in 2020 you had the governor ones and he had the state legislature ones and Pence said that he had he had to choose which one to count he said he didn’t have the legal right to go for the dueling electors right but what this did was essentially codified this so now under this new act it’s the governor who decides and the pr the vice president does not have the right to ch choose to read or not read and so on it adds though that but if state law but if state law in effect prior to the election explicitly identifies another officer such as the secretary of state that works as well meaning they have to do it ahead of time the law simply requires a certainty before the election they have to say beforehand who’s the one who’s the legitimate Authority for this it says additionally it require some kind of secure feature security feature on the certificate of ask entertainment the official document identifying a States appointed electors suggesting they didn’t have this before again as detered by the state before the election the goal they say is to be sure that the right slate and only that slate is transmitted no more dueling electors because of this it says the law also clarifies that electors shall be appointed in accordance with the laws of the state enacted prior to election day a state cannot change the rules after the voting ends now on this and back to the idea of a popular vote though because again as I’ve mentioned Trump is challenging the two states that don’t follow the normal procedure of the electoral college right they have a split vote system Nebraska and Maine Trump is challenging that Democrats there’s a campaign right now again under this uh Confederation of States basically uh where they’re trying to make a popular vote and of course as I discussed there was also the B Administration and what was actually a bipartisan uh legislation that clarified they say the nature of how votes are counted and of how electors are sent forward some of the possible loopholes in the election were closed because of that and now things like dueling electors things like the vice president being able to overturn election none of that is anymore possible but again back to the idea of a popular vote the issue is not necessarily partisan it’s actually not just Democrats or Republicans at least in you know not if you go by polling from last year this is Newsweek from September of 2023 and they said this a growing number of Republican voters they claimed at least want presidential elections decided by popular vote rather than the electoral college system according to a poll even though that would favor Democrat candidates in recent history they say that a few Research Center survey found that nearly 2third of us adults 65% say the way the president is elected should be based on who receives the most votes overall nationally with 33% believing it should remain as who wins The Electoral College count they’re suggesting that only 33 of Americans want the Electoral College as it currently is and they say as well the poll also shows that just over half of Republican voters 52% want to keep the Electoral college system however the amount of GOP voters who want to switch to the popular vote currently stands at 43 sorry 47% and has been increasing steadily for years now look that said I don’t fully trust polls I tend to think that they get things wrong often and I tend to think there’s a lot of bias that is possible I’m not accusing this one but there’s a lot of possible bias in terms of how you conduct a poll I tend to not fully believe them but they do have an impact on the decisions that get made in this country they actually do have tangible interests when it comes to political strategy if the 2024 elections go the same as the 2016 elections it’s likely that a popular vote would actually harm Republicans more than Democrats actually even further than that and remember as well in the context of the 2020 elections a lot of Republicans believe that Trump actually did win the popular vote take it for what you will um but again they believe that there were other anomalies let’s say that that changed that uh if we go by USA Today though Republicans haven’t technically won the popular vote since George W bush which was back in 2004 USA Today notes that bush won 50.7% of the popular vote in the 2004 presidential elections according to the Federal Election Commission the agency responsible for enforcing campaign Finance regulations they know that when bush left office in 2009 after serving two terms that May that means the last Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote left office 14 years ago now that sounds like a long time but you know practically speaking what that really means is that you know Barack Obama won the popular vote and then they claim Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 You know despite Trump winning the Electoral College at the time and so you know take it for what you will it’s not as Extreme as it sounds that’s two elections basically but this is being predicted as a trend as well for the 2024 elections which is important again as we said when it comes to strategy and politics and maybe what they’re trying to change to ensure Victory Business Insider notes that new polling predicts former president Donald Trump will lose the popular vote in 2024 in the presidential election to Joe Biden but they’re saying that Trump would probably win the electoral college by a significant margin now remember this has changed a bit this is from last year but again this is based on the studies and polling they’ve done which they don’t update too often they knowe that between mid August to the beginning of November stack data strategy interviewed more than 15,000 registered us voters in order to forecast the upcoming election and they say the results released on Monday at the time show Trump flipping four states in 2024 that were crucial to Biden’s 2020 Victory Arizona Georgia Georgia Pennsylvania and Wisconsin they’re saying Trump is probably going to win those swing States right the four states ultimately equate to 56 electoral votes more than enough to push Trump over the 270 Mark to win back the White House and they note that if stack data strategies predictions are accurate the election would Mark a third time since 2000 that a president won the election without winning the popular vote suggesting a again that unless they change the Electoral College Trump might win but here’s the here’s the wild card in it in that same light the Electoral College is seen by some Democrats as one of the biggest things standing in their way of victory for 2024 but the other side of it is there’s a big concern with you know RFK Jr because they’re saying that RFK Jr might actually get a lot more votes in the swing States remember the reason swing states are swing States is because they don’t really lean Republican or Democrat you have more independent voters that’s the challenge of Swing States and if you have a very popular independent candidate based on historical polling and election results the swing States tend to vote a lot for Independence remember Ross perau and stuff the swing States might actually go for an independent meaning that the popular vote will be sucked away from which whichever candidate the swing states are pulling votes from RFK Jr expected to pull more votes from Democrats meaning that even with a popular vote RFK Jr might throw a big fat wrench in that plan right political notes in 2023 the Electoral College is the big factor in a third-party nightmare for Democrats they say Battleground States may actually be the least likely places for non- major party candidates to draw support in other words again like Arizona and Georgia and Pennsylvania right but look as I mentioned a bit ago even if we can’t fully go by polls right I show you some polls I don’t fully believe polls the data is used to inform politics a lot of political strategy is based on them even if they’re not fully reliable and you know that large and growing national movement we discussed earlier that already has 17 States and Washington DC talking about switching to a popular vote has actually been gaining Steam from this data because again they’re saying that Biden is probably going to lose the popular or win the popular vote but lose the again electoral college and unless they change the Electoral College they might not win but as I mentioned earlier the movement behind this is part of the national popular vote interstate compact that’s the official name for it let me show you some details on that this is when Minnesota joined it last year and they were the 16th States saying they will participate one more has joined since then the Democracy docket said in June of 2023 that last month at the time Minnesota brought the US One Step Closer to reforming the Electoral College and ushering in a national popular vote for president how by passing a little known legislative provision called the national popular vote interstate compact again they’re bypassing the very difficult process of changing the Electoral College Rules by doing it through a different means let me explain it says the compact is an ingenious workaround loophole to the frustrating reality that fully abolishing the Electoral College they can’t abolish it requires a constitutional amendment a non-starter in this political movement because again they can’t do it from the state level they can’t just create a constitutional amendment and get rid of the Electoral College so rather than get rid of the Electoral College by trying to alter the Constitution they found another way to violate the constitution they say that instead of scrapping the Electoral College the compact simply requires that participating States award all of their presidential electors to whichever candidate wins the most votes nationally meaning the entire country whoever wins the national popular vote gets the electors from those States meaning again if there’s a national election and again whoever wins all the votes from those States go to that person but they know that critically the compact does not go into effect until States representing the majority of Electoral College votes so they have to hit the 270 vote threshold and they have to sign on with that again they’re just over 200 currently meaning they need probably a couple more States or a few more depending on how big the states are they note that at that point each State’s law will kick into action and the winner of the popular vote will be guaranteed a presidential victory now briefly on this loophole remember the Electoral College is a process in a system laid out in the Constitution as they mentioned if you want to actually get rid of the Electoral College and move toward a popular vote you have to amend the Constitution and that’s very difficult that the process for that is very very difficult and very risky in fact CU you would open up the Constitution to other other possible changes not only that uh and so rather than do that they’re changing the state law on this very similar to what’s happening in Nebraska in Maine where you know again they have a split vote system for the the Electoral College and they’re not talking about again the states part of this compact they’re not talking about getting rid of the Electoral College what they’re saying is that they will award their Electoral College votes based on a national whoever is most popular whoever gets the popular vote standard so they’re keeping the Electoral College votes but awarding them based on popularity popular vote right now notes further in most of the pro-democracy states I think they mean democracy rather than a republic at this point are states controlled by democrats they say they’ve already joined the Compact and the remaining blue states are too small to contribute many electoral votes suggesting again that even if they got all the Democrat States on board they wouldn’t have enough to reach that 270 threshold meaning they they don’t think it’s worthwhile basically and notes that that leaves Electoral College reformers reliant on passing the compact in States at least partially governed by lawmakers hostile to democratic reform unless new leaders take over they need to get control of more State legislatures and governors right right they say that strategically then the path to a national popular vote demands getting laser focused on Election pro-democracy direct democracy I mean not republics right lawmakers in state legislator they have to flip the states in other words and they said that that would end the Electoral College as we know it they said that this brings the end of the Electoral College as we know it within reach according to them directly right now look of course we’ll see how this plays out right now even if these states do move forward to enact a popular vote it might not be in place for 2024 is they note they have to actually flip several States if they want to get enough Democrat States on board to actually do it they don’t have the ability to do it yet even though they’re actually pretty close to it now we can expect to see a lot of challenges to this and probably a lot more debate as it gets closer and there’s of course the wild card that you know depending on how things go the polls are just not accurate the polling data and Trump could be like Bush not that long ago and Trump may win the popular vote as well some people argue he won it in 2020 right but again you know we’ll see even beyond the 2024 elections though like we can’t just think of this as a as a couple year agenda and then the whole thing’s off the table the debates around the Electoral College are very likely going to still be there and any change to that will represent a significant shift in how presidents are elected they’re talking about getting rid of one of the foundations of how we do elections in the US and if they get rid of this it is going to change our system of government we’ll be more of a direct democracy at least when it comes to national elections now on a related note though when it comes to the elections and the possible impact of you know third party candidates I mentioned RFK JR this could very well represent a reform within the Democrat Party and this is the other thing Democrats are having to consider right now it might not be in their favor to actually get rid of the Electoral College because RFK Jr might actually split the votes in the swing States I’ll be talking about this more though and also how there are different factions within the Democrat Party who are kind of dividing the party right now over the Israel Hamas War that’ll be only on Epic tv.com though so for those of you watching on YouTube Facebook X Rumble come and join Jo us on Epic TV that’s our uncentered streaming platform dedicated to bringing you the truth so come and join us not only will you get access to the rest of this show but also big news you’ll get access to my new documentary about the Border crisis and I am right now officially announcing its release so my documentary called Weapons of Mass migration is going to be released on Main 9th only on epct tv.com and let me talk briefly about that now folks you might remember it was like two or three years ago I did a special feature investigating the Border crisis I went into Mexico I went to the US Mexico border and what I found was essentially that the United Nations was working with the US government to run the Border crisis I exposed how the state department is working with theom International Organization for migration and they’re facilitating Mass migration into the US that American tax dollars I showed you their actual website and the documents on it our tax dollars are paying for it now to be honest I was probably a bit too far ahead of the curve on that a lot of people did not believe it frankly uh but recently some reports have come out corroborating and confirming what I said it is now more widely accepted that actually yeah the United Nations is running this our tax do are paying for it but there’s still a lot of unanswered questions a lot of people still don’t know what’s going on how it works what the processes and so my new documentary it goes into this I went down to Daren right at the mouth of the Darion Gap in Panama I got access to the migrant camps in Darion which you normally cannot get into we had some good contacts who help who helped us gain access and we got video in the camps I have video of the United Nations checkpoints I have video of the registration processes of the United Nations I have video of the bus systems and how they what they do is they just load them onto buses ship them North to Costa Rica Costa Rica loads them on buses ships them North ships them North when they get to Mexico they ship them North the cartels only handle the border crossing and from there they turn themselves into Customs Border Protection Customs Border Protection takes some into what they call processing facilities alongside the Department of Homeland Security they get them registered in the amnesty program which is when they say they arrest them that’s actually what they’re talking about they just enrolled them in the amnesty program and again they discard their IDs so they can defraud the process they give them a free airplane ticket to anywhere they want to go in the country they load them on buses and they drop them off on the streets of the USA and I have the entire thing on video I I video taped I recorded each step of this process and I’m going to show it to all of you um this is going to be a very important documentary this documentary has the potential to change our debate on the mass migration crisis and what is really going on in this country I will show you exactly what they’re doing exactly how the process works I will show you the organizations behind it I will show you the money behind it I’ll show you the systems to facilitate it I will show you this on May 9th when this documentary comes out I’m going to show you a quick trailer though of it before we get into this um but again folks this this new documentary Weapons of Mass migration is officially announced right here right now it’s going to be coming out May 9th only on Epic tv.com so if you want to watch it come and join us at epct tv.com and please help us get the word out let me show you the official trailer an unrelenting stream of immigration nonstop nonstop according to statistics around 7.2 million illegal immigrants entered the United States under President Joe Biden alone they have United Nations facilities here and the people pushing this are leading people to their death to what extent is the United Nations facilitating the Border crisis they’re throwing rocks they’re being overridden by International Powers we are not authorized to talk it is a humanitarian business now and they said oh yeah these are the debit cards giving these debit cards to the immigrants why all the clo of dagger why are we being so stealthy about this and some of these people have gone on record and publicly talked about this people close to Barack Obama it was 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually followers I I’ve been researching of course what’s happening but I want to know why it’s happening [Music] we all see Chaos on a on a global scale until America is extinguished and the power shifts completely to the east [Music]
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