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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Did Macron win any of the young left-wing voters in the 2nd round of the elections?
If one reads France24's vignettes of the young, left-wing voters before the 2nd round of the 2022 French presidential election, you could almost swear none were going to vote Macron:
"Macron or ...
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Are unsuccessful presidential candidates expected to retire?
Are unsuccessful presidential candidates expected to retire? I ask this because it seems that the candidates work their whole political lives to make a presidential nomination, and if they are then ...
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Is there any law that prohibits a 3rd presendential term? [duplicate]
Is there an actual law prohibiting a 3rd precedential term by a US President. I wonder because Roosevelt did 4 terms. There was a world war that made an exception prudent. No lack of mitigating ...
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Who were Cathy Brown and Sabrina Allen (independent candidates in 2000 US presidential election)?
Select 2000 from results and then click more
Brown and Allen got 1,606 votes. They had ballot access in a single state - Tennessee.
For context, the Prohibition party got 208 - a fringe but well-known ...
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How are unavailable United States Presidential elector's replaced before the electoral college meets to vote? [duplicate]
The members of the U. S. Electoral College are chosen in each state on election day in early November. They meet to cast their formal votes In early December.
What happens if an individual elector, ...
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Any acknowledged opposition whatsoever to Xi as a potential candidate for party leader this October? Any others publicly discussed?
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins October 16, 2022 and
It is believed that either current Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be re-elected as the general secretary of the ...
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Legal weight of the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA)
I've been a bit (well, very) confused regarding the proposed Electoral Count Reform Act.
Purportedly, it apparently attempts to (among other things) do the following:
Dictate which state official(s) ...
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Why didn't Russia intervene in the Ukrainian elections?
If we accept Russia's constant meddling in US elections for a fact, and also accept that the efforts were successful, then a question arises as to why Russia couldn't or wouldn't want to prevent ...
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If a US State passed a law regarding the eligibility of Presidents, could it be enforced?
Suppose (the citizens of) a state were tired of government shutdowns and they or their legislature passed a law prohibiting members of Congress and Presidents involved in a governmental shutdown from ...
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Why did Virginia turn blue after G.W.Bush?
The historical map of presidential elections shows that Virginia was for decades a red state till 2008, when Obama won this state. Interestingly enough, since then it has always voted for Democrats. ...
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How does Liz Cheney's losing the Republican primary impact the future of the GOP? [closed]
Liz Cheney has lost the Republican primaries. As I know, she represents a group of Republicans who criticized Trump. What does this loss mean for the GOP?
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Why would a former US president's announcement of a reelection bid cut off legal defense funds?
At the end of CNN's August 9, 2022 video Analysis: How FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago could help Trump in 2024 (after about 10:00) host Brianna Keilar asks about the former US president potentially ...
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If instances of electoral fraud were found, or suspected, in a presidential election, what would be the constitutional procedure for resolution?
The Trump administration seemed to be of the view that if they could show that a state had suffered electoral fraud, the Vice President or the Attorney General could simply demand that those states ...
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At what point in the election process must someone aspiring to be president meet the requirements established in the constitution? [duplicate]
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will reach the constitutionally required age to be eligible for presidency mere weeks before the 2024 Presidential elections. This means she definitely is ...
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2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election had just 1 candidate: What was the HK people's response to this?
Note: I live in Hong Kong too same as the answerer, but I don't have any idea. Don't judge me please.
I'm possibly overlooking something in this Wikipedia page 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election,...
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Was the number of votes for write in candidates for the 2020 presidential election ever released?
In the 2020 presidential election in the United States there were more than a thousand write in candidates . But I never saw any reports on the votes they got.
Did the government ever release any ...
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Debate-related statement GOP says every US Republican presidential candidate must sign; what does it say & what happens if they don't sign or comply?
The Guardian's April 14 2022 Republican party withdraws from US Commission on Presidential Debates begins:
The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to withdraw from the ...
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Why would far-left groups oppose Macron’s re-election?
As a background to this question, I know next-to-nothing about French politics other than briefly reading a few news articles about current events.
In response to the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in ...
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Why does the French presidential election system use two first-past-the-post rounds instead of a single preference-based voting round? [duplicate]
France has a system where presidential elections are decided on a first past the post (FPTP) electoral arrangement, whereby if no candidate wins 50% in the first round (someone winning in the 1st ...
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Why does Zemmour score relatively well in Paris and with French living abroad, compared to Le Pen or his French nationwide scores?
The results for the first round of the French presidential election, 2022, overall:
Candidate
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Macron
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Le Pen
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Mélenchon
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The results ...
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Is there any modeling on who would be the Condorcet winner in the French Presidential election?
The French Presidential elections use FPTP with a run off round, so directly determining the Condorcet winner is obviously impossible. But I wonder if pollsters have done any modeling to determine the ...
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How could Le Pen be seeking Mélenchon votes?
I read that Le Pen is courting Mélenchon (the 3rd place finisher) voters for the upcoming runoff election against Macron. However, I thought Mélenchon was the socialist candidate, so won't all of his ...
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What is the basic difference between Turkish and Sri Lankan presidential form of democracy?
What is the basic difference between the Sri Lankan and the Turkish system of the presidency?
For instance, The Sri Lankan president lost the majority in the parliament. As a result, the political ...
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Will there be any televised first-round presidential debates in France during the "equal airtime" period that starts on 28 March 2022?
The rule in France in 2022 is that the media must treat verified candidates for the presidency "equitably" until 28 March, and from then on it must treat them "equally". So before ...
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What steps could the US GOP take to block primary challenges to Trump in 2024 should he run again, and which of these were also taken in 2020?
In its 2022-03-18 GOP lawmaker slams Trump's Ukraine remark: 'He was awful' "CNN's Jim Sciutto talks to Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) about Donald Trump's comments about Putin's invasion of Ukraine&...
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Can a person be elected U.S. President if his birthplace became part of the U.S. after he was born? [duplicate]
The person I have in mind is Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became the 50th state in 1959.
Suppose he had been born in 1957 (my birth year) that is, before Hawaii ...
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Why would Philippines Senator Manny Pacquiao be "banking on the support of Filipino voters from classes D and E to win the 2022 presidential race"?
After about 08:10 in CNN Philippines Politics as Usual video May 2022: Who are you rooting for? | Politics As Usual reporter Xianne Arcangel discusses term-limited Philippines Senator Manny Pacquiao's ...
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What are former US judge J. Michael Luttig arguments for "why he thinks it’s time to reform the Electoral Count Act"?
Politico's The never-before-told backstory of Pence's Jan. 6 argument begins:
Former judge J. Michael Luttig shares the story of the run-up to the insurrection, and why he thinks it’s time to reform ...
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Can an extra nomination in the French presidential election prevent a person's candidacy?
In order to be a candidate in a French presidential election, a person must obtain at least 500 "présentations" or "parrainages" from among tens of thousands of elected ...
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Is Berlusconi being used as a scarecrow to make other presidential candidates more acceptable in Italy?
If you type in a search engine "Berlusconi presidential candidate" or "Draghi presidential candidate" you will find a lot of references to the upcoming presidential elections in ...
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What explains Trump's gains with Latino voters in the 2020 US presidential election?
In almost every majority Hispanic county and electoral district, president Donald Trump gained against his 2016 presidential performance, though he lost almost all of these areas again, most by wide ...
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Why would Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio run for president of the Philippines as a "substitute candidate"? Substitute for what?
CNN's A dictator's son. A former actor. A champion boxer. Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader says:
And there are signs (current and term-limited Philippine President ...
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What would be the actual, real process for removing a wrongly-elected US President, if it ever really happened? [duplicate]
Let us be clear that for the purposes of this question the 46th President of the US was validly elected.
But let us imagine a situation in the future where it turns out that the US President was not ...
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If a court reversed a presidential election result mid-term, how long would that new president serve?
As the subject is in the air, it occurs to me to ask how long a US president would serve if he came to office by reversing in a court the result of an election some way into the term of his opponent ?
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Is there anything judicial that can prevent Trump from taking part in the 2024 elections?
It seems that Donald Trump is already preparing for his 2024 campaign - especially after the Republican CPAC in Iowa.
Is there anything judicial that could prevent him from running in the 2024 race?
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