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 Ohio tried that for real, they’d lose in court, period, even with a corrupt judiciary.
The story isn’t about Ohio, it’s about spreading FUD about Donald Trump as a Pubbie.
As a fellow buckeye, Catsrus, what we really need is to change the ‘winner take all’ model for the EV in Ohio. A truly representative model would be to match to the Electoral College structure; one vote for each House district (cast in favor of the candidate who wins the popular vote in the district), two votes to represent the Senate seats (cast for the candidate who wins the aggregated popular vote in the State).
This would go a long way to correcting the unfair advantage now held in the major metros, IMO.
That won’t hold up in court.
Very revealing. The GOP views Trump as a major threat, and is moving to counter him.
As I have said before, the primaries really don’t matter. The nomination is at the convention, according to the GOP rules.
What effect does this have on the RAT party and Bernie?
hmm - I seem to recall in a recent election that there was at least one candidate that was on the ballot for multiple parties as their nominee. I think it was something like the green and progressive parties or some such thing. Person had won each parties nomination, so I’m not sure how they got around this process to file the applications. I’m in Ohio.
Trump is one of those sorts that wins. Losing is not in his vocabulary. I can see him doing a third party for the purpose of winning against the anus orifices of the establishment.
I can also see the establishment A/O’s encouraging an atmosphere of contempt to drive The Donald to go third party however as they seem to be in bed with the DNC on the direction of a New World Order.
I believe many in our government see The New World Order as inevitable, and are cashing in as much as they can, and what they can of the Old.
Post of the day.
Trump is running for president as he knows it will be less costly to run a campaign than it will be to pay off Hillary when she is president.
He is a business man after all.
In its simplest form, it may be unconstitutional.
It sounds like a good idea to keep out saboteurs to the process, but they need to qualify it by including a significant number of registered voters signing a petition to enable any candidate to then run as 3rd Party. That should get it OK constitutionally.
It appears to me that the Constitution leaves it to each State Legislature to determine the method for choosing that State's Electoral votes.
The law in post 26:
has already filed a declaration of candidacy, a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or a nominating petition, or has become a candidate through party nomination at a primary election or by the filling of a vacancy under section 3513.30 or 3513.31 of the Revised Code for:
(1) Any federal, state, or county office,
Doesn’t say anything about participating in a Republican debate as being a reason to deny the candidate. They can’t just make up the law.
I’m glad this is coming out now. Trump needs to find out now what his options are before he “files a declaration of intent” in Ohio for any party.
Hustard says Trumps participation in the debate was a declaration of Republican candidacy.
13 states have “sore loser” provisions.
Gee, one more fix is in move.
My view is that he WILL get the republican nomination. His boldness is appealing to many, he has money to run without having to beg for donors, I would have preferred Cruz, but I will support Trump, and especially if Trump winds up with Cruz as VP....
“I’ve been saying Trump should start demanding the other candidates say whether or not they’ll support him if he’s the nominee. I hope some advising him to do that.”
I guess they already did, by not raising their hands at the debate.
I guess they already did, by not raising their hands at the debate.
The question was “Raise your hands if you WON’T support the eventual nominee.” The question should have been “Raise you hands if you WILL support the nominee.” It was asked the other way so Trump would be the only one to raise his hand. If he didn’t then he would be called a liar if he eventually ran on a third party ticket.
If Baier wasn’t trying to “catch” Trump the others would have been forced to say they’d support Trump. And every one of them except Cruz would have lied.
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