MicroWaveTrump says he won't sign loyalty pledge required for first GOP debate
glimseThis is great news IMO
He’ll run on his own Freedom Party ticket and we’ll get a 3-party election. Oh no, now the rightwing votes are split. Bummer!
He’ll run on his own Freedom Party ticket and we’ll get a 3-party election. Oh no, now the rightwing votes are split. Bummer!
Republicans are too spineless. Realistically trump will threaten to run third party, and they will forgo the primaries and hand him the nomination.
Isn’t that a little unconstitutional? I know that hasn’t stopped them in the past, but just straight up cancelling a vote of the people is more blatantly fascist than I’d expect from even them.
The political parties are private organizations. They can do whatever they want with their nomination process.
Yeah in short even the democratic party notes that. When the DNC was sued under the accusation of rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. The case was thrown out for lack of standing. In short the DNC said “You are accusing us of rigging the primaries… but rigging the primaries isn’t a crime so there’s no reason to spend the time proving it one way or the other”.
Primaries aren’t in the constitution
It says that if there is a primary election, citizens cannot be refused the right to vote due to not paying taxes or a “poll tax”
It says nothing about when or if such an election should be held.