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  • Obviously it will significantly reduce their chances IF even one of these "certain states" are states that the Republican candidate might conceivably win, since (normally) all of the electoral votes of each state are "given" to the candidate whose party "wins" that state. SO, for example: IF Trump wins the Republican nomination, and IF the Republicans win Colorado, then Trump will NOT receive the 10 electoral votes (in 2024) that Colorado has in the Presidential Election. *** 270 electoral votes will be needed to win the election, so 10 votes = 3.7% of what is needed to win. *** IF the election were as "close" as it was last time, that would be enough to cause a candidate who might have otherwise won the election to lose the election. *** Add just one or two other of the relatively low-population states like Colorado, and you can see how that might be devastating to the chances of a particular candidate...especially a candidate who is not likely to win by a landslide, one who - IF they win - is likely to win only by a slim margin. That loss of electoral votes is going to "eat up" any "slim margin" before the election even takes place.
  • Striking a candidate from running for office with out a trial violates the 5th and 14th amendment right to due process of law clauses. State courts should know that. Scotus will probably spank CO for their move against former potus, IMHO 12/20/23
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      I guess we will see about the second part. As for the 5th Amendment, I think you are correct, but there are many people out there who disagree, and they have valid points, such as: the 5th Amendment extends to matters of government seizure of life, liberty, and property. In Trump's case, he'd be arguing that this is his liberty being violated by not being allowed to run for President; however, the Constitution doesn't appear to say anything to lead us to believe that running for President is a right insofaras there are many restrictions that extend to who can and cannot be president well beyond the restrictions of who does and does not have protection of basic rights. Furthermore, the loophole in the 5th Amendment that former President GW Bush had tested to its limits stating that one's Constitional rights mean absolutely nothing at all to the government in times of "public danger" could be argued to extend to people who allegedly ran an insurrection trying to capture power once again. I know its sounds ridiculous to apolitical people out of context, but I happen to agree with this one based on all of the ongoing allegations of election interference. The same points apply to the 14th Amendment interpretation as well, since it uses similar language, but there is also the last clause, which would be interesting in this case, since the argument could be made by Trump that the laws as applied here would not be applied equally to some other candidate if the proverbial show was on the other foot. If he has some real scenarios to back that argument up, which I could see how he might, he could win the court case; however, since, again, this is all unprecedented, it's going to ultimately come down to a judge's or judges' interpretation of the law and conjecture about the situation.
  • He will lose.😈
  • I suppose , off hand , being striken from state ballots will weaken their winning the nomination and the presidency.
  • It will hurt their chances of winning since there were only 7 million votes that separated the 2 candidates last Presidential election.
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      Not sure if that matters, necessarily. The president of the USA is chosen by electors, not by popular vote. For example, Trump won the 2016 election by negative 3 million votes. It is hypothetically (for rhetorical purposes) possible that, if one person in each of the ten most populous states voted for the same person, no one else in those states bothered to vote for anyone, and then the same candidate who won those ten states won any state larger than New Mexico, that candidate could win the entire election with a minimum of 11 votes, even if tens of millions of people in the other states voted for the other candidate.
  • It will hurt their chances of winning since there were only 7 million votes that separated the 2 candidates last Presidential election.
  • It will hurt their chances of winning since there were only 7 million votes that separated the 2 candidates last Presidential election.

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