[Alberta's Child]

Individual states of the Union run presidential elections ...

Then can "run" whatever they want. The date of a presidential election is established by Congress.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Anyway. It’s a distraction of sorts. Away from the 150,000 (and the GDP figures today the worst drop in history). Soon likely to be 200,000. It’s what Bannon calls, as a tactic, “flooding the zone with shit.” He has only a few limited of these to use imho