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Oct 2020
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Episode 122 đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾 HOW AMERICANS ELECT...

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In this English lesson, I explain how American vote for a United States presidents. It is pretty complicated because we don't directly elect our president. There is something in between the votes and the president, and that's called the electoral college. Large states like California have many electoral college votes, 55. Small states like mine only have fou ... Show More
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