I don’t mean to pick on Symone Sanders Townsend.
But for the second time in as many weeks, the co-anchor of MSNBC’s The Weekend has exposed a disturbing knowledge deficit.
Last week, we caught Symone accusing Donald Trump, in his inaugural address, of “promising carnage.” In fact, he promised to “stop” carnage, of the sort that keeps “mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities.”
Today, in a segment devoted to trashing third-party candidates because of the likelihood that they would take votes from Biden, Sanders revealed her unfamiliarity with the way that Electoral College votes are awarded. Sanders:
“I think now more than any of our past recent elections, that third-party candidates are a true, true threat to Joe Biden, but also to 270, period. Our Constitution says, to be the President of the United States, you have to win 270 Electoral…
