(August 23, 2023 at 11:04 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Andrew Yang should run again.

(August 23, 2023 at 11:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 23, 2023 at 11:04 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Andrew Yang should run again.

He wouldn't do any better this time around.

(August 24, 2023 at 10:50 am)Aegon Wrote:

(August 23, 2023 at 11:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He wouldn't do any better this time around.

I don't know, his 2016 campaign has aged incredibly well. Everything he noted then is even more of an issue now. It would be highly unlikely for him to win but considering how many people seem to detest both Biden and Trump, coupled with the fact that neither Dems or Repubs seem to care about economic issues that working class Americans face and the startling progress on AI tech we've seen in the last year alone... I think he'd do better this time around.

(August 24, 2023 at 11:29 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 24, 2023 at 10:50 am)Aegon Wrote: I don't know, his 2016 campaign has aged incredibly well. Everything he noted then is even more of an issue now. It would be highly unlikely for him to win but considering how many people seem to detest both Biden and Trump, coupled with the fact that neither Dems or Repubs seem to care about economic issues that working class Americans face and the startling progress on AI tech we've seen in the last year alone... I think he'd do better this time around.

Look at the broad antipathy to any Democrat primarying Biden.

(August 20, 2023 at 1:38 pm)Aegon Wrote:

(August 19, 2023 at 7:33 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Cali is basically a one-party state and it's not Trump's party.

Fun fact: California has more registered Republicans than any other state.

(August 24, 2023 at 3:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I confess that I’ve watched some excepts from the debate. I’m pretty sure Joe Biden won.

Boru

Quote:A Florida lawyer is challenging former President Trump’s ability to run for president in 2024 under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, citing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Lawrence Caplan, a tax attorney in Palm Beach County, filed the challenge in federal court Thursday, pointing to a clause in the amendment that says those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government cannot hold office.

The challenge was first reported by The Palm Beach Post.

“The bottom line here is that President Trump both engaged in an insurrection and also gave aid and comfort to other individuals who were engaging in such actions, within the clear meaning of those terms as defined in Section Three of the 14th Amendment,” Caplan wrote in the filing. “Assuming that the public record to date is accurate, and we have no evidence to the contrary, Trump is no longer eligible to seek the office of the President of the United States, or of any other state of the Union.”

Caplan’s challenge is one of the first questioning the legality of Trump’s 2024 bid, though Trump is also facing criminal charges at both the state and federal level over his actions to undo the results of the 2020 vote.

The former president is currently the far-and-away front-runner in the GOP presidential primary.

In an interview with The Hill, Caplan said that “someone had to take the lead” on challenging Trump’s candidacy.

“This is a scary, scary guy, and if he’s president, I think we’re all on the way to fascism,” he said. “There’s no law that says we have to remain a democracy forever.