So you wanna be president of the United States?

The leader of the free world?

Someone who gets that lovely Oval Office on dhe, your own bowling alley in the basement of one.

But wait, how do you actually make it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

How does the whole process from dream to reality, actually work so that this music thing doesn't work out?

You can always run for president.

Well, this video is going to explain every single step you need to take to make it to the way.

Okay, He's starting out from scratch and you're trying to get nominated by party.

Not currently in the White House.

How do you even know if you're in movie shot for a start?

Legally, you have to have been born in the United States.

Lived there for 14 years on be over 35.

And if you don't take all those boxes Sorry.

You can't be president.

That's me after a star.

So what job exactly puts you in the best position to run for the White House?

Well, it helps if you've either being a lawyer or you've served in the military and fat of all the people who've been president only through them have not done one of those two things.

But some have had some more unusual jobs.

Ronald Reagan It was a former 100 staff.

Andrew Johnson.

He was a tailor, and Jimmy Carter he ran a peanut.

But one thing that really helps is having held some kind of political office like nearly every president has, except, of course, businessman and reality star Donald Trump.

Right?

Your next big task is raising money and lots of it.

Trump and his backers spent about $73 million on getting the Republican nomination in 2016 including $50 million off his own cap.

Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders raised nearly $35 million in the final three months of 2019 mostly grassroots donations.

I believe in democracy, not billionaires.

Warning system.

Our campaign is funded by the working people of this country, right?

So you've got some cash in the bank and you're now ready to launch a campaign.

You're gonna need to make sure you start early.

Barrack Obama announced his candidacy in February 2007 nearly two years before Election Day.

I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president.

That's because at the beginning of the election year, your party will hold votes in a LL 50 states to decide who will be their candidate.

These are the primaries state by state, many elections now.

Some have closed primaries that means only registered members of a party vote.

But some have open primaries where any member of the public, even someone who's a registered supporter off the opposing party can take part and then others use caucuses.

Now they're basically big public meetings where voters discussed their choices openly and then they decide who they want to support Now.

This is where it gets really exciting because if you win in Iowa the first caucus, you can get momentum and go on and win the whole thing.

That's what happened for Jimmy Carter in 1976.

He came out of nowhere and won it all the same to the barrack Obama in 2008.

At this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do.

But remember, winning Iowa doesn't always mean you're gonna win the whole thing because the Republican person who won in 8 4012 and 2016 did not go on to be Republican nominee.

Come February or March, Your face one more super Tuesdays, when dozens of states are up for grabs in a single days.

12 states over 1600 delegates.

Could it all comes down to this one night, it'll be huge.

And then by the summer it's pretty clear which candidate is out in front.

But it's no ever yet.

There's another important milestone.

National convention.

It's a party celebrating a popular president and a big lead in the polls.

That's where your party officially announces its nominee through delegates from each state.

But wait, what's a delegate?

Well, they're people chosen to represent their stay at the convention, and they cast votes for the presidential nominee.

They make their decision based on who won the primary or caucus in their state.

But remember, just because you want a caucus or primary doesn't mean you get for the delegates from that state that's decided by each day, depending on their own specific Lord.

So let's imagine you secure an overall majority of delegates at the convention.

Well, congratulations.

You're now the presidential candidate for your party.

I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for president of the theme race for the White House can really begin now.

If you thought you'd spend loads of dosh in the primaries, just wait to see how much you're gonna need for the rest of the campaign.

In the final six weeks of the 2016 race, Hillary Clinton and her banker spent $360 million.

That's more than she spent in the 1st 6 months of the year, and she's still lost.

So you have to make sure you've got deep, deep pockets, and you better be good in front of a camera, too, because they're gonna be three big TV debates coming up now.

The first time a presidential debate was held was back in 1960 when John F.

Kennedy and Richard Nixon went head to head in front of an audience off 66 million people.

The battle was considered a defeat for Nixon, who was famously a bit sweaty under the lights on.

He went on to narrowly lose the election, and the TV debates have given us some memorable moments down the years, like Ronald Reagan's quip about age when even his opponent chuckled you already are the oldest president in history.

I will not make age an issue of this campaign.

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience on Donald Trump's strange body language around Hillary Clinton.

Serious health problems on number three.

The most important thing about the debate.

It's just to make sure that you don't mess them up.

All that's left now is polling day.

Weirdly, though, you're not trying to necessarily get the most votes from the public, your aim is actually win the most votes in the Electoral College.

And here's how it works.

Whichever candidate gets a majority of the 538 Elektra, lt's wins the White House, so the magic number is 2 74 Wait minute.

Why 538?

Well, each state is given electoral based on the number of people it sends to Congress.

So California has the highest population, about 40 million people and therefore, based on the most representatives toe Washington, along with two senators that every state gets add it all up, and California has 55 electoral college votes, the most in the country.

On the other hand, seven States, along with the District of Columbia, only get three electoral College votes because they have smaller populations and therefore send fewer representatives to Washington.

So here's the thing.

It's not necessarily about winning the most votes from the people.

It's actually about winning the most of these.

Elektra.

Lt's Let's take Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.

She won nearly three million more votes than Donald Trump across the country, But Donald Trump's votes were concentrated in the right places where the Electoral College numbers could get him past that magic to 70.

So take Michigan President Trump, only one here by 10.23% 4.8 1,000,000 votes cast in that state.

He won by just 10,000 more, but crucially, he took a LL 16 Electoral College votes.

The same thing happened in Pennsylvania.

Six million votes were cast.

Trump won by just 40,000 votes, but again he took away 20 Electoral college votes.

So there is, if you wanna be president, we need to do.

Is this have a good background?

Being a lawyer or a veteran helps a lot and make sure you have some decent political experience.

A national president, Trump of course, then hit the ground running and raise about a $1,000,000,000 from the public.

Probably big business.

Small donations to work on.

Maybe top it up with your own cash.

If you happen to be so lucky, then you can have to crisscross the whole country.

Shake hands and kiss babies in those key early primary and caucus states that you can day momentum going into the convention.

And then you've got to do it all over again, crisscrossed the country, shake hands and kiss babies as you gear up for the November election.

And don't forget, it's know about the number of votes from the public that you get.

It's where you get them from.

Donald Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania.

That is, the race, frankly, so focused on the Electoral College and how you can get over that magic to 70 toe win.

And that's it.