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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)

submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@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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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I don’t think the Republican states will be able to block Biden. I’m sure they’ll try and it won’t work and they’ll get mad. But then again they’re always mad. I personally don’t like the precedent; that being said, who on Earth thinks that if a leftist candidate ran, they wouldn’t just do this immediately, precedent or not? The fact that it’s being done justifies the action when it inevitably happens to the left(we did it to the right wing, we’re just being fair to protect the country, they’ll say) but I stress that it would happen regardless. Bourgeois liberalism will ditch whatever rules they have for their grand spectacle the minute they start to lose and they’ll grasp for their Fascist side to change rules and drop all semblance of fairness or democracy.