• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    What possible reason would he have to do that…? If he wins, he gets off scot free. If he loses then he’ll claim that he won and is being suppressed for political reasons and then get of scot free.

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        1 month ago

        In the event he actually gets incarcerated, if he were to win the presidency he could sue claiming being locked up interferes with his constitutional duties as president. I think I know what this Supreme Court would decide on that

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            1 month ago

            If you have the pile of links why not post them? This is just a screenshot of truncated headlines masquerading as a source.

            One of the headlines is “Samuel Alito Is Mad You Can’t Be Bigoted Towards Gay People Anymore.” This could be an article about the current conservative supreme court protecting the rights of gay people, or it could be an article about how the supreme court is planning to strip rights from gay people. I don’t know because you didn’t actually post a source, you posted a screenshot of a list of truncated headlines.

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      If he were a traditional candidate, the answer is that the party needs to have a candidate who not only can win, but also supports candidates for lower level elections. A traditional candidate would step aside and nominate someone to take their place. Not sure if the GOP convention rules allow it, but they could possibly even direct their delegates to go towards someone else.

      Since Trump is a narcissist who doesn’t even get why downstream elections are important for building a political base of support, he’ll of course ignore this.