Why So Many Attempts to Strike Trump's Name from the Ballot?

Topic: Elections

We have been assured repeatedly for more than three years that the 2020 Presidential election results are not only accurate but were derived from the safest and most secure election of all-time.  Such a phrase, given that we exist in a time featuring constant technological innovation, and presumably better data and means of presiding over complex processes, insinuates that each ensuing election, such as the 2022 midterms, or the forthcoming national standoff known as a quadrennial presidential election, should be even more reliable and trustworthy than those before it.

If indeed those results were accurate, which fewer than 3 out of 8 Americans believe to be the case, then they tell us President Trump lost four million more votes off the national popular vote margin, dropped 74 electoral votes, and managed to fumble Republican strongholds Arizona and Georgia, while winning North Carolina and Texas by uncomfortably low margins.  They would also reveal that while President Trump had his own unique base of support, by and large he was so unpopular that he motivated millions of non-voters to the polls to vote against him, making him the first incumbent to gain votes from his previous election and not be reelected since Grover Cleveland in 1888.  The results, even though the election was decided by fewer than 50,000 votes in three states, portray President Trump as a weak incumbent president.

Back in the real world, I’ve always believed the left’s unwillingness to show their cards was a tell that they didn’t think they actually had the best hand, and that moving away from the wreckage of the 2020 quasi-election as quickly and with as little transparency as possible was their best, and perhaps their only, play.

If your win was so historically significant and definite, why not take a victory lap and rub our faces in it?

Thanks to the tenacity of freedom-lovers, the Biden administration has spent three years looking over its proverbial shoulder, getting far less damage done than it otherwise could have because it has dedicated so many resources toward doing everything possible to sideline Trump from even appearing on a ballot come November, going as far as to attempt third-world judicial proceedings in an efforts to lock him up and toss away the key.  I have written about exactly what sort of boomerang effect such behavior is likely to produce right here in these pages.

The lapdog media have faithfully carried regime water, selectively dropping editorials and fake polling trying to convince everyone just how icky it would be to have a presidential candidate on the ticket who was convicted of politically inspired charges.  Those chained to the eastern seaboard cannot figure out why the more theywant Trump off the ballot, the more we want him on it.  This inability to read the room has led to a variety of states run by tyrannical morons, such as Maine and Colorado, to abuse their powers and seek to rule Trump off the ballot entirely by fiat.  Which makes me wonder…

If Trump is such a bad candidate and was beaten by a pudding-brained political retread with no charisma who didn’t bother to campaign, why not let him get trounced again in November so you can laugh at his misfortunate, and then lock him away?

I was compelled to put these thoughts in writing after I found out about today’s hearing in Honolulu for Senate Bill 2392, which is to keep Trump off Hawaii’s ballot.  You may already know I consider Hawaii one of the closer states in a real 2020 election, and a true toss-up for 2024 if elections were operating on standard political dynamics and trends.  Despite Trump gaining 51% in net votes over 2016, he managed to lose it to Biden my more votes than he lost it to Clinton by, after Biden made Barack Obama’s vote output look like child’s play.  With so much wind in Democrat sails out in the Pacific, why not let Trump on the ballot so that power can be demonstrated, and the rebuke felt all the way back on the mainland?

Here are three reasons why preventing a political opponent from the ballot is something that would be considered – right, wrong, or indifferent:

I.               Candidate is Ineligible

All states have their own standards for ballot exclusion for various offices.  In some cases, Secretaries of State have forbidden candidates from the ballot for a number of technical or procedural issues, ranging from lack of legal experience to months of residency.  Since President Trump clearly meets all minimum requirements (age, natural born citizen, not term limited) for the office sought, the United States presidency, states are having to come up with their own “gotchas,” which leads to the next point…