Donald Trump initially said Kamala Harris shouldn't be “allowed” to run against him. Now he wants her “forced off” the campaign trail.

Donald Trump initially said Kamala Harris shouldn’t be “allowed” to run against him. Now he wants her “forced off” the campaign trail.

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Ahead of Election Day 2020, Trump said Joe Biden shouldn’t have been “allowed” to run for president. In July 2024, he said Kamala Harris shouldn’t be “allowed” to run, either.

Four months later, as a HuffPost report noted, the former president insisted that the Democratic vice president should now be “forced off” the campaign trail.

In recent weeks, as the GOP nominee has struggled to come up with a coherent closing message, he’s fixated on a handful of preoccupations, including his desire to see Biden return to the ballot, his baseless “60 Minutes” conspiracy theory and his insistence that Harris should stop running against him.

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  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    205·
    2 months ago

    If your country is in a place where you don’t think banning felons from holding elected office is good because you are worried that the legislative branch will weaponize the judicial branch to stop their opposition from running, then I’d suggest that the problem isn’t one that laws can fix

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      271·
      2 months ago

      It was a forethought, it was intentional. The “founding fathers” may have been super naive and absurd in some situations, but this is one they got correct. You don’t want to let the government decide who gets to run in that way because that will almost always be abused no matter what the current society is like.

      There are specific situations like what Colorado tried with Trump that makes sense and have a legal history, he was part of an insurrection, but for “standard” felonies it’s best that we don’t go down that road.

      • 51dusty@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        nevermind standard felonies. if it were almost any other federal position with access to classified material he’d never get a clearance, along with many other politicians; strictly based on business deals with foreign powers, debt and erratic behavior. why these people don’t have to go through the same minimum, non-political checks for access as other federal workers is beyond me… at the very least, he just doesn’t meet the minimum qualifications for access to material needed to perform his job.

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
          3·
          2 months ago

          If I understand correctly (however dumb I think it is) “we” give him clearance by voting for him. We are supposed to be that check.

          That’s one place the founders fucked up, but also their system of elections was much different than it is now. I for one wouldn’t even be able to vote since I don’t own land… They never expected complete fucking morons and propagandized asshats to be voting. I believe they also expected the electors of the electoral college to override a vote for someone as bat shit crazy as Trump…