2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWith deadline looming, Trump is not on the Minnesota ballot.
Political Wire:
Donald Trump is not yet on the Minnesota presidential ballot, according to KARE-TV.
As Gateway Pundit notes, the Minnesota Republican party has until August 29 to file but its not clear they will have time to file the necessary paperwork.
Link: https://politicalwire.com
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Or is there someone who ties his shoes?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Sweet!
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Hey, Priebus...throwing up yet?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)got 1,320,225 votes in last election.
FSogol
(45,480 posts)DFW
(54,358 posts)Al least, I hope so!
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)That very well may be the case. That is the deadline.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,412 posts)Get my pointe?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)if they're not quite ready to get him on the ballot by August 29?
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)If they were to get an extension there would be an issue with having enough time to print the ballots for absentee voters.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Wasn't it like 2 weeks before the election when NJ Democrats were able to put Frank Lautenberg on the ballot after the original candidate was charged with some crimes or something?
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)And the ruling was made it October 2nd. The county clerks advised the justices that anything beyond the following Wednesday would not be doable. In addition, the Democratic Party had to pony up $800,000 for the cost to make it happen.
What is possible in one state is not necessarily possible in other states.
progressoid
(49,983 posts)Also, here's the whole link: https://politicalwire.com/2016/08/25/trump-not-on-minnesota-ballot/
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)How can any political campaign be this feckless? Or maybe the state republican party has a conscience...
brooklynite
(94,503 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)He decided to give Hillary a little head start! 10 in the bag for Dems already!
napi21
(45,806 posts)Sounds to me like the GOP in MN. really doesn't want him! The Con Man is going to be PISSED!
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Dreamweaver 5.0
(124 posts)Your whole life, why would your presidential campaign be run any different?
DFW
(54,358 posts)It's not like Minnesota would have gone for Trump anyway
But it would have been fun if it had been in TX with its reliable bloc of Republican electoral votes, or a big swing state, or even a reliable red state with Republican voters screaming that they can't find Sir Can't-a-lot on the ballot.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)Vlad normally doesn't have to deal with this sort of thing.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)apnu
(8,756 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Clinton?
Obama?
John Kerry? is Minnesota even a state?
How about Mark Dayton? Yeah, it's Dayton's fault!
Or Al Franken, that little prankster!
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,051 posts)A well run organization doesn't let this happen. It starts at the top, his campaign is clueless. They'll get on the ballot, but the media should embarrass the heck out of him with this.
wallyworld2
(375 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Eugene
(61,872 posts)I won't post the link to a right-wing site, but tweets say
the the party chair was unaware that the needed
paperwork had not been filed. They are scrambling.
And I thought our Bay State Republicans were clowns...
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bulloney
(4,113 posts)She's giving him all of this valuable information and the minions in her own state may not be able to vote for Trump?
Where's the justice in that?
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)When something bad happens there MUST be someone to blame, that's just the way repubs are. This one should certainly be interesting. Granted, Minnesota is solidly for Hillary, but it could certainly have an effect on state and local candidates. And of course there's the entertainment factor of watching the repub clusterfuck.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)MineralMan
(146,287 posts)The Minnesota Republican Party is in complete disarray, though. They only got the papers filed today to ensure his place on the ballot, and only after people called and notified them than the deadline was almost here.
Over the past few years, the MN GOP has gotten more and more disorganized. There have been some scandals and the leadership has changed frequently. Nobody seems to know what they're doing at the top of the organization.
Fun Times!
riversedge
(70,196 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)It would have been far more than hilarious if they had failed to make the ballot.
Eugene
(61,872 posts)From The Washington Post:
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/25/how-donald-trump-almost-missed-the-ballot-in-minnesota-and-what-that-says-about-his-campaign/
barbtries
(28,787 posts)i swear i've never seen anything like this. i want to laugh, but i'm really not enjoying this.