So here's a question, what happens when a bunch of democrat states take Trump off the ballot, and a bunch of republican states take Biden off. Can an election even go forward at that point? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Colorado supreme court ruled that they can take Trump off the ballot, now it looks like California is trying to do that as well. Meanwhile, republican states are threatening to retaliate in kind.

This seems unprecedented for US, does anybody know what happens in this scenario?

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If the Republican party establishment wants, they can use this to nullify Trump, get a massive fundraising boost, and a huge boost to whomever their candidate happens to be. 1) It gets Trump out of the way. 2)The Repubs can scream about how its the deep state/Demmacommie Plot/Judicial overreach. 3) The Repub candidate can spend the entire election cycle talking about nothing else besides who a small group of unelected individuals stepped all over democracy and if YOU ONLY ELECT, RON DESANTIS, HE PROMISES YOU THAT HE WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP!!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I think if Trump isn't interested in getting out of their way then the Republicans can't get past him this easily. They would need him to either actually get behind whoever they put forward (unlikely) or be completely silenced in a way that they can pull off pretending that he would be behind their guy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

But it does give them a "law and order" excuse for why their hands are tied and its in the Republican party voter's duty to vote for whoever IS actually on the ballot with an R by their name.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Worst case scenario is that nobody gets 270 electoral votes and Congress picks the winner.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I would think the bigger issue would be whether the winner would have any legitimacy.

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