It’s too late for Trump to drop out now. Many state filing deadlines have passed, and I recall reading there are some states with extremely early mail-in voting where ballots are already being printed. Trump’s only path off the ballot is if God exercises His Ultimate Veto.
I really don’t think so.
Like. I remember something about how (at least in some states) you’re really voting for a party ticket. And then the party that wins gets that many electoral college voters from that party who then vote. And I believe the only requirement is they vote for the party that won the votes to appoint them as electorers, and that’s not even a requirement everywhere.
It was the small piece of truth that led to Trump’s false elector plan last election. The only reason it didn’t work, was his false electors weren’t legitimately appointed.
So trump could both not be able to remove his name from ballots, but still drop out of the race and no longer be the candidate.
It’s two different things with an incredibly strong correlation, but they don’t always have to be the same.
I didn’t bother to dig in and verify that tho, I may be wrong. But I didn’t spend the time to do it and went off memory because trump just ain’t dropping out no matter what.
It’s not that you are voting for a party ticket, instead you are voting for electors picked by the party, with the only job of supporting the candidate. (In my state, the ballots even say we are voting for “Electors For …” .) And in some states, once the electors are chosen on that ballot, the law says they must vote for their pledged candidate. So it’s not easy for a candidate to just drop out. Those electors may not be given the choice to change.
Yeah our system drastically need reformed, there’s too much shit that’s different state to state, and waaaaaay too much of our current system relies on people doing what they’re supposed to.
It’s just crazy to me we’re almost a decade into trump and Dems aren’t desperately trying to shore up all these loopholes.
Shits just unnecessarily complicated
