Questions tagged [presidential-election]
For questions regarding the process by which a person attains the role of president over a governing body or country.
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How would electoral votes be cast if the winning presidential candidate was a write-in?
If a write-in candidate won the November 2024 general election for President in some state, how would electors be chosen, since no political party had appointed electors in advance for that candidate?
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How did Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo explain why he vetoed a bill that would ban people from acting as fake electors?
Politico's Nov 15, 2023 Nevada attorney general is investigating false electors who aided Trump in 2020 includes the following, quoting Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford:
...an American lawyer and ...
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What happens if a state omits a major party candidate from their presidential ballot
This question is inspired by this other question.
Suppose a state determines that a major party candidate should not be on their presidential general election ballot, perhaps because they believe it ...
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Requiring a larger majority for re-election
In many countries, there is an upper bound on how much time the same person can be a president. For example, in the USA the upper bound is 8 years. This has the advantage of letting more people hold ...
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Why has the U.S. still not elected a women president? [closed]
Why has the U.S. still not elected a woman president, even though the U.S. is often depicted as a country of freedom? There are many countries that have elected a woman president. Still, the U.S. has ...
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Do any 2024 Republican Presidential candidates oppose a pathway to legalization of illegal immigrants?
During the 2016 US Presidential campaign, Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz said this:
My position is very simple. I oppose amnesty. I oppose citizenship. I oppose legalization … Today, ...
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What exactly are the "fake elector" allegations that are being made in the US media re. the 2020 POTUS elections?
Even Fox manages to talk about them.
Who is Cathy Latham? Former Coffee County (Georgia) GOP chair accused of being a 'fake elector'
ATLANTA - Cathy Latham, former GOP chair for Coffee County and a ...
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What does Vivek Ramaswamy mean by "fourth branch of government"?
In Vivek Ramaswamy's "ten commandments", he says:
There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four
What is the implied fourth branch in this context?
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What if the president of the US is convicted at state level?
Strange as it may sound, it is my understanding that both these things may happen:
Donald Trump is convicted and sentenced to prison in the state of
Georgia.
Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination (...
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Why are Lee Mercer and John Anthony Castro the highest-fundraising candidates for the 2024 U.S. Presidential election?
According to the U.S. Federal Election Commission's website, as of July 10, 2023 the two candidates for U.S. President who have raised the most money are Lee Mercer (D), at $192 million, and John ...
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Why would being "almost the end of the second quarter for fundraising" be a reason for US presidential candidates not being "out there quite as much"?
In CNN's June 14, 2023 'He’s scared s***less’: Hear John Kelly’s blunt take on Trump indictment at about 08:23, CNN's Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny says:
So one of the reasons the ...
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DeSantis' "US Constitution’s 'leverage points'... to exercise the 'true scope' of presidential power"; something new or based on existing theories?
CNN's May 26 2023 DeSantis is going after Trump like never before includes the following:
Now, DeSantis is making the case that he is better suited to deliver on the promises that Trump himself ...
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Has any US president tried to reclaim office after he lost it?
Donald Trump has confidently declared himself the “45th and 47th” US president. While it´s not sure that he´ll become the next president or even a candidate, he defenetly want to run for office again. ...
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What benefit does Ron DeSantis gain by delaying his Presidential campaign?
By this point, two things are more or less universally understood about Ron DeSantis among observers of current US politics.
He's planning on running for President in the 2024 elections.
He's the ...
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"America is a marshmallow" statement from president Putin in 2016 after Trump was elected [closed]
I am looking for more information on a quote that I heard in 2016 and barely remember.
After President Trump was elected in 2016, a reporter on a NPR news program mentioned that Putin mentioned in a ...
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