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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Are the U.S.A. and Russia in a conflict similar to the “Cold War” in 2018?
From my understanding the "Cold War" was not really a war in the traditional sense, but a term to describe the tension between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. as they attempted to destabilise and weaken each ...
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What could Trump hope to gain from a *second* Georgia “recount”?
Trump campaign asks for another Georgia recount
I understand that Georgia law required an audit, and that it although they counted all votes again it was not a recount.
Given that
Campaign-requested ...
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Smallest MOV in Georgia history for president?
The election for president is very close in Georgia.
What was the smallest margin of victory in both percentage points and raw votes for a presidential election in the US state of Georgia?
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How did Trump's January 6 speech call for insurrection and violence?
It wasn't easy, but I just read a transcript of Trump's January 6 speech.
It's nearly all the usual rambling talk about election fraud and people that betrayed or supported him.
This could cause ...
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Argument for why the electoral clause was not violated by balloting changes related to Covid-19
The electoral clause (article II, section I, clause 2) of the U.S. constitution states:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to ...
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How many congressional districts produced a split result in the 2020 House and Presidential elections?
I was trying to find out more about districts who voted for one party for president and the other for House. We have data on this for 1972 to 2016. I am asking because I'm researching polarization.
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How are the electors of the electoral college selected?
How are the electors for each party selected in the US presidential election?
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What would it take to win a presidential campaign with no staff? [closed]
Imagine a person does not need to campaign to win, they are just adored by 60% of the country (USA) and does not need to do any press. How much work would it take to do all the paper work needed to ...
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Does anything prevent US state legislatures from directly selecting electors overriding the popular vote in their state?
Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution states "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors".
This seems to be a non-...
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What is the Legal Process if Electoral Certificates are Damaged?
Plenty of interesting questions have arisen related to the unprecedented riot at the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. In a recent report printed in the New Yorker, Keith Stern, a ...
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Does US Federal Law explicitly prohibit election misinformation?
According to the latest rumor about pro-Trump influencer arrested on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to ...
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How do Republicans explain consistently losing the popular vote in presidential elections since 1992?
I was wondering about how the Republican Party has only won the popular vote once in three decades in a presidential election. Seven out of eight presidential popular votes were won by Democrats. This ...
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Has a sitting US president ever expressed anything less than a full willingness to accept the results of an election?
Currently there's a lot of discussion about Trump's vagueness when reporters ask him whether he would peacefully transfer his power to Joe Biden if he were to lose the election. Thus far Trump has not ...
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What happens if election fraud is found after a president is elected? [duplicate]
A proportion of Donald Trump's supporters believe that the presidential election that has recently led to Joe Biden being sworn in was fraudulent. As I recall, numerous states, such as Arizona, are ...
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Interactive election results charts
Is anyone aware of a site with interactive maps where the real-time results of the 2020 US presidential election results can be found?
I find many claims of there being some specific vote counts being ...
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Why would Putin even bother barring Navalny from participating?
The BBC describes Navalny as Putin's main opposition rival (example article), despite the fact that he has rarely scored over 2% in opinion polls (at least two other opposition candidates score ≥6%). ...
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Who must be present at the Presidential Inauguration?
The current outgoing USA President will not attend the ceremony for the inauguration of the new president. Apparently also the outgoing First Lady will not be present.
Is the presence of both ...
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Did Biden make it earlier to the office? [closed]
I've seen a video of him signing executive orders. Isn't he supposed to get to the office in March. As I remember Trump make it to the office in March. It seems everything has happened rapidly with ...
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Why did postal voting favour Joe Biden so much?
In the recent US presidential election, there were several states which looked almost certs for Donald Trump until the postal votes were counted, after which there was a huge swing towards Joe Biden.
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Does Congress have the power to bar someone from standing for presidential election?
This question is partly about what laws congress can pass by simple majority and partly about the US constitution.
Could congress pass a law by simple majority that barred an individual from standing ...
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If something happens to the elected president shortly before the inauguration ceremony, who will be the president? [duplicate]
Suppose there is a newly elected president in USA, however before the official switch (i.e. before the inauguration ceremony takes place) something happens to the elected president and they can't ...
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Was there a limit on the number of times a person could have been elected the president of the United States before 1951?
According to the twenty-second amendment to the United States Constitution:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than
twice.
This amendment was ratified in 1951, and ...
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Can the senate now vote to bar Trump from standing again? [duplicate]
It looks the senate will not hold an impeachment trial very soon. But can they vote by simple majority to bar Trump from ever standing for president again?
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Why does the 2021 resolution to abolish the electoral college explicitly allow voting for a candidate of one's own state?
A January 11, 2021 Congressional resolution proposes to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish the electoral college. The resolution contains a clause explicitly allowing voting for candidates who ...
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Which ten States did Trump want to contest?
Giuliani's voicemail message intended for Senator Tommy Tuberville mentions that Trump wanted to contest ten States, which is a lot more than the States the court cases were about. Which States is ...
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If a US president is convicted for insurrection, does that also prevent his children from running for president?
In my country, there have been more than a few attempts at a coup d'etat, auto-coup, etc. We have legislation in place to prevent insurrectionists and their immediate family from running for president ...
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Are there states in the US where Trump supporters are in overwhelming majority?
Elections are over, Biden has been elected, as we know. But there are about 75 millions of americans, who vote for Trump in 2020. It is interesting for me, how they are allocated - county voting map ...
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Have there been any riots due to the 2020 US presidential election results?
(Note: I'm from the UK so whilst we get some news about America our news cycle isn't dominated by their affairs)
So, in 2020 there was the US elections, Biden won, but Trump is refusing to concede and ...
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Could the Republican Party refuse to allow Donald Trump to run in the US Presidential Election 2024?
There are many rumors saying that Donald Trump would like to rerun for president in 2024. Many Republicans argue that Donald Trump has destroyed the image of the GOP and after republicans blamed ...
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Did Loefller or other any other senator sign the objection to Georgia's certificate and then withdraw it, or did they not sign it in the first place?
The objections to Georgia, Michigan, Nevada certificates were only signed by members of the House of Representatives, but by no Senator, unlike those regarding Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The objection ...
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Has the US government done everything it can to prove the votes were counted correctly? If not, why not? [closed]
Some Trump supporters (including Trump himself) claim that votes were counted in an unfair way. Has the US government done everything possible to prove that Biden is the legitimate winner of the ...
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Shift by precinct NYC 2016 to 2020?
I read a tweet from the Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman saying that NYC had a larger shift towards Trump than any state in the country. It shifted 7.4 points towards Trump compared to his 1st ...
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Is there formal protection against Pence reading arbitrary slates of electors?
Based the answers to this question, and reviewing this one too, I get that Pence, as President of the Senate, will read each state's slate of electors, and those electors can be eliminated only by a ...
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What events can occur in the electoral votes count that would overturn election results?
What series of events would specifically need to occur on January 6 (when Congress counts the 2020 electoral votes) so that the election is overturned? I know there's a remote possibility something ...
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What states used voting equipment by Dominion Voting Systems for the 2020 election (if any)?
I heard about that "Dominion" system of electronic voting.
Did any states use it during the 2020 election? And if so, which exactly?
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How long might Congress take to certify the 2020 Presidential election?
In 2017, the joint session of Congress certifying Trump's 2016 win took a little over 30 minutes; I watched it. There were a few objections from Representatives, but none were joined by a Senator and ...
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Can the US President veto Congress' decisions to reject electoral votes for the presidency?
According to the Electoral Count Act on the designation of the US President, the House of Representatives and the Senate may reject votes of some electors when they consider that these votes were not ...
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Since 1856, has there ever been a US presidential election where every state votes for the same party in 2 consecutive presidential elections?
I was thinking about presidential elections in the USA. Since the two major parties existed in any way shape or form, has every state voted the same in consecutive presidential elections? In other ...
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Can Trump, Pence, or other Trump loyalists derail the remaining proceedings of the 2020 election, and if so, how?
Building on this question: What procedures are in place to stop a U.S. Vice President from ignoring electors?, I am wondering what, if any, actions/inactions might be attempted by Trump, Pence, or ...
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Who are the two dead Georgia voters who voted? [closed]
It was clear from the call that Trump has surrounded himself with aides who have fed his false perceptions that the election was stolen. When he claimed that more than 5,000 ballots were cast in ...
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Is President-elect Biden the first to create an “Office of the President-Elect” set?
I keep seeing this image on the internet, of President-elect Biden standing at a lectern that looks a bit like the president's.
I saw this picture of President-elect Biden in the USA Today, and the ...
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Understanding Standing [closed]
Another Trump backed lawsuit to overturn the November 2020 election has failed to be heard due to lack of standing.
He ruled that US Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas and a slate of Republican ...
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If the Electoral Count Act is repealed, would Pence have the power to throw out states' results? [duplicate]
I have just found that another lawsuit have been filed in Texas, aimed at overturning the presidential election result and seeking for the courts to invalidate the Electoral Count Act as ...
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What procedures are in place to stop a U.S. Vice President from ignoring electors?
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and President Donald Trump's defeated electors appear to be suing Vice President Mike Pence in a Federal Court in Texas. Gohmert and a handful of the electors sued Pence ...
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If every legal challenge that Trump has mounted since the election succeeds, could he win the presidency?
I am not certain of exactly which legal cases he has launched, but let us imagine that all of them (recounts, discarding votes, etc.) are decided in his favo(u)r, exactly as he wishes.
In that case, ...
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Are there any studies/ data sources into whether Republicans or Democrats suffer the most under the presence of 3rd parties?
I am looking to explore the impact of 3rd parties on mainstream political parties in the United States. Not necessarily at the federal level but at state level too, and across any branch of the ...
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In what way would invoking martial law help Trump overturn the election?
In the news, it has been said that still-president Trump could invoke martial law in order to help him overturn the election (CNN, Business Insider)
Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump ...
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What was the Democratic vote increase from 2012 to 2020 in Texas?
I want to see an image of raw Democratic vote increase from 2012 to 2020 for president. I want it to by % and not just vote numbers so it's not biased towards larger counties. Biggest decrease (...
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In 2020, did Biden win the fewest counties of any winning US presidential candidate?
Hillary Clinton won 487 counties despite winning the popular vote in 2016. But she lost the Electoral College so that doesn't matter.
Did Joe Biden win the fewest counties out of any winning ...
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Why didn't poll observers use binoculars?
Apparently some of the lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign have protested the fact that their observers could not stand close enough to election workers to see the writing on mail-in ballots:
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