Posted on 08/08/2015 9:43:36 PM PDT by z taxman
According to “sore loser” laws in the state of Ohio, any candidate who has chosen their party essentially can’t, at the last minute, run on a third-party ticket in the state.
With Ohio being a crucial swing state, that’s a massive hurdle for team Trump to overcome, should they wish to run a third-party candidacy in the future.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and his spokesman, Joshua Eck, have already decided that due to the fact Trump “voluntarily participated” in the Republican primary debate in the state of Ohio, he’s already declared himself a Republican in the eyes of Ohio law and “chosen a party for this election cycle.”
Legal experts said that mounting a third-party run is a daunting, close-to-impossible, expensive challenge, according to USA Today.
Trump, should he proceed with his third-party option, would likely have to challenge laws like Ohio’s “sore loser” law in court, mount massive grassroots campaigns in all 50 states to get on the ballot and spend even more of his own money in a process that political experts believe would hand the election to Democrats on a silver platter.
But then again, this is Donald Trump — a candidate who has single-handedly changed the campaign in a matter of a few months.
His fierce anti-establishment platform has garnered unprecedented support from what his campaign calls a “silent majority,” so it’s really not a surprise that he’s insistent on using his third-party threat as leverage — that’s what deal-makers do.
What are your thoughts? Sound off on Facebook and Twitter if you think Trump would be foolish to run on a third-party ticket or if you think he should continue to use it for leverage against the establishment.
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If he does run third party and that idiot hillberry wins we can lay the blame directly on bonehead and conehead. If they would put forward anything remotely conservative the party would not be splitting like it is.
Won’t work. The People have the right to vote for whomever they wish. Trump will have the OHIO SOS in and out of court in record time with his name on the ballot in come capacity. And people will vote for him.
Not a dimes’ worth of difference between Jeb and Hillary anyway, so who cares if Trump runs third party?
The party will put him on the ballots after he is nominated. You really don’t know how politics works, do you?
“My first thought - unconstitutional.”
Unconstitutional in the Constitution-sense, or in the “we-make-up-the-laws-as-we-go-along-even-though-we-are-the-Judicial-Branch-sense? With the latter, the former doesn't mean anything anymore. Unfortunately, it all comes down to Roberts and Kennedy again. We live in bizarro world now.
That's Kasich speaking through them by the way.
Husted is a Republican LINK
Good point about Kasich. This stuff is all elementary anyway. Trump is running as a Republican. I would be surprised if he went third party. He’s just trying to keep the GOPe from knifing him in the back by letting them stew over it.
That's what they did with Goldwater in '64.
sore loser...
sounds like socialism
(I always wondered how those countries fell to knee jerk political mouth slobering... getting to see history repeat itself here!)
I’m not sure but looking at 3513.052 (G) it might be possible to withdraw your candidacy before the cutoff date and then seek another party’s nomination.
I haven’t looked too closely at Ohio’s laws, so I could be all wrong.
If that should happen, Fox News and Megyn Kelly can take a bow!
Which ultimately gave birth to Reagan.
Okay, I did some research. This law applies to someone who doesn’t win their primary in a particular party election, and then wants to run as an independent in the general election. So, technically, if Trump doesn’t win the votes to be the nominee in the R party, he could run as a write in, because he wasn’t up against one other opponent in the other party. Say, for instance, Trump doesn’t win the early voting in states, and Bush emerges as the nominee (God forbid) then Trump could run as an independent.
Yes, but note in the article they are already declaring him as having chosen his party because he participated in the debates this Thursday. They consider this case closed.
They don’t think he should be able to go third party now.
I don’t want it, but that’s really up to him IMO.
He’s never going to run. But if he were the nominee, the GOPe would break out the champagne. It would be their biggest history ever. No more opposition to them.
The “Establishment” is waging an all our war on Trump.
This means they know he is electable, and they are trying everything they can to stop him.
I think all it will do is make Trump more popular.
You do realize the RNC and the DNC are the same thing.
Right?
Perhaps you are right, but they are stating he has now declared even before primaries begin. That doesn’t seem reasoned.
Perhaps the language does address after the nominee is chosen.
If so, I think Trump would be a big loser to try third party unless the Republican party used egregious actions to deprive him of the nomination.
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