¶5 The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three; because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. Thes...
To accommodate the major parties, California Secretary of State Bill Jones agreed to code the March primary ballots to allow the parties to count only their members’ votes when awarding delegates to their presidential nominating conventions this summer. In his friend-of-the-court brief, Davis said...
The ruling should have no effect on the results of the last primary, Jones said. He promised to help craft a replacement for the “closed” primary to which the state will revert, at least until 2004--the soonest a new ballot measure could take effect if passed in 2002. How a new bal...
MANCHESTER, N.H. —Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, who made up in dogged determination whatever he lacked in charisma and funds, won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night, casting a cloud of uncertainty over the contest for the nomination. With the bulk of ...
When Jack Kemp, secretary of Housing and Urban Development for President Bush, opposed Proposition 187, for example, Rohrabacher said Kemp’s “act of stupidity has knocked him right out of the presidential race. If he disagreed with it, he should have kept his mouth shut.” The measure won...
Much like Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis, with whom he campaigned often, McCarthy fashioned an appeal to working families. Pledging to improve the quality of their lives, McCarthy reminded voters of his achievements on behalf of the environment, of nursing home regulation and ch...
However, the party fell into internal squabbling and fund-raising difficulties, and it began to contract rather than expand. In 1984, its presidential candidate, David Bergland, received only 228,000 votes and was on the ballots of only 38 states and the District of Columbia. ...
The Waxman-Berman alliance, as you might expect, stands ready with its own new-leadership candidate in Hart, whose name is conveniently associated with the very subject of new-idea in politics. State Sen. Hart is not a relative of U.S. senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Gary...
Often a brash promoter of his own fortunes and reputation, Murphy freely took credit for Reagan’s entry into politics, saying, “Sure, that big nationwide (1964) TV speech for (Republican presidential candidate Barry) Goldwater shoved him across the line, and it was great. But I’d been ...
Allan Sutherlin, the director of Robertson’s now-moribund presidential campaign, said such developments show that Robertson and his supporters are no longer outsiders in Republican politics. “Our people have really hung in and are mainstreamed and will continue to be mainstreamed into the regular...