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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?

DeSantis isn't expressing any particularly new idea here, nor is there any actual political theory behind this. He's offering a 'total war' conception of politics — effectively an anti-idealistic ...
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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?

TLDR: based on his Florida experience, we can expect he'd "game the system" on anything possible: running agencies, distributing funding, supreme court nominations (although that's ...
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What is the total cost of the administration of the US 2020 presidential election?

For only the administrative costs of running a presidential election, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reports, The usual estimate for running a presidential election is $2 ...
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Has any US president tried to reclaim office after he lost it?

Seven Ex-Presidents Have Tried To Reclaim the Office, but only one of them actually succeeded. Of the remaining six, three ran as third party candidates and three others attempted to run after leaving ...
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Has any US president tried to reclaim office after he lost it?

And what about the other examples, who tried but were not successful? FWTW, the unsuccessful ones were Herbert Hoover, Ulysses S. Grant, Van Buren, Fillmore, and Teddy Roosevelt, according to the Pew ...
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Has any US president tried to reclaim office after he lost it?

Not only has this happened in the past but a president has served two non consecutive terms. Stephen Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer ...
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