Posted on 04/17/2016 5:26:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The only law that covers candidates for office of president is the US Constitution which negates any State imposed extra qualifications on the access.
Boy the hysteria is really nearing a crescendo. Trump is the heavy frontrunner and presumptive GOP nominee. He has no need to think about a third party.
Soon, when the voters of Texas send him packing,
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I doubt Edward will run for a 2nd term. Historically Edward doesn’t stay in any
position but a few years, less than six usually. Thus assuming he doesn’t get the
nomination and have to run for re-election then I expect he’ll vacate when this term
ends. Note he hadn’t been Senator for even 1/2 a term before he was running for the
GOP nomination. He is a intelligent person but I think he gets into something for
3-4 years, learns about it and becomes bored and moves on.
So who do you square your support of Cruz with you post from a few years ago below? Did the constitution change? Is it a living breathing document?
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From: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2511742/posts?page=20#20
Those are two VERY different things! Dr. Fukino should stick to medicine and not dabble in constitutional law. I don’t care if he was born in the Lincoln bedroom! If Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama, Senior (A British subject from Kenya) is Mr. Obama’s father, there is no way he is a natural-born citizen!! Native-born, perhaps, but that’s not what the constitution calls for.
In most states, these laws do not apply to presidential candidates. Many states accomplish
the same requirement by having simultaneous registration dates for the primary and the
general election. Only the states of Connecticut, Iowa, New York, and Vermont have neither
a sore-loser law nor simultaneous registration deadlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore-loser_law
One of the talking heads Sunday morning shows claimed there are 945 delegates in the remaining contests, not 700 as the author of this piece claims.
Ohio Secretary Of State Says Trump Can’t Launch Third-Party Run
From the article:
Business mogul Donald Trump has stood on the debate stage for the Republican Party in Ohio, and he has filed to run in the state’s primary. In Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office, that is enough to disqualify Trump from running as a third-party candidate, according to a Monday report from Cleveland.com.
Trump has threatened the Republican Party countless times that if they don’t treat him fairly, he is going to launch an independent campaign. Now, a spokesman for the secretary of state told Cleveland.com that it won’t be an option for Trump in Ohio.
According to Husted’s spokesman, a candidate can only run as a third-party candidate in Ohio if they “disaffiliate” from another party in “good faith.” The spokesman says that Trump is too far entangled in the GOP primary to back out as a Republican now.
“Since Donald Trump has filed a declaration of candidacy with our office as a Republican, has filed with Federal Election Commission as a Republican candidate, and voluntarily took part in the Republican presidential debates, the first of which was held in Ohio, there is no way for Mr. Trump to disaffiliate from the Republican Party ‘in good faith’ during this election cycle,” Husted spokesman Joshua Eck told the Plain Dealer.
If Trump really were ineligible to run as a third-party candidate in the key swing state of Ohio, it would undercut his leverage with the GOP at large and seriously undermine his ability to launch a credible third-party campaign.
——Hey I’m all for Trump mounting an independent bid. 100%.——
In the real world outside of the FR Trump echo chamber, an independent run would fail....spectacularly...
He simply does not have the number of supporters to win a general election...against both parties...
At best, he would get 30 % tops in the general, which in itself would be quite an achievement...but he would still lose...
I think Trump is smarter than....
This is the “newspaper” that endorsed Cruz today? (What do you call that, a self-hating New Yorker?)
Trump people are waking up to the hangover.
Irrelevant, since Donald Trump will be running on the GOP ticket...
Not on the Cruz fanboys, it's not.
But it will over the course of the next 2 Tuesdays...
Very funny:
“Doubt his phoniness? In an interview last week with Hamodia, a Jewish newspaper, he declared that “one seminal event that impacted me as a child was the Entebbe raid,” in which Israeli commandos freed hostages of an airplane hijacking. “What the Entebbe raid said to me was, if you’re a terrorist, you may capture an Israeli. . But you are going to die.” That struck Cruz as “a very Texan approach.”
The raid that spurred such deep thoughts about the Jewish state and the Lone Star State was in 1976 — when Cruz was 5 years old and not long after his family moved from Canada.
“Only Texas has a “hard” sore loser law, and it can be changed by the Legislature any time up until November 7, 2016.”
Texas Legislature is biennial and this is their off year.
Trump can be on the ballot in every state if the voters put him there — by writing his name down, and then putting the X after it.
He doesn’t need to “qualify” or have a party organization.
Just do two things: write, and “X”.
“He will have been mathematically eliminated after the next Tuesday or two.”
That statement proves your ignorance.
Someone is only “mathematically eliminated” when the other candidate receives over 1,237 delegates.
Teddy is on life support at this point.
All an independent run by Trump would do is hand the Presidency and the Supreme court, and probably the Senate, to the Democrats.
It's happy to win for the right price, it prefers to put up a good-looking fight and then lose. The winner is accountable, and accountable costs real money.
“All an independent run by Trump would do is hand the Presidency and the Supreme court “
What kind of Court did we get from Republican presidents?
John Roberts voted with Kagan and Ginzburg on the really important matters.
What we need, is for Congress to restrict the jurisdiction of the court, which it can do by simply passing a law.
Otherwise, the Court is way, way out of balance.
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