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teach1st

(5,966 posts)
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 06:41 PM Jul 2021

Would Trump leave Florida to make DeSantis his running mate? He might have to.

Would Trump leave Florida to make DeSantis his running mate? He might have to.
Tampa Bay Times, 7/28/2021

Donald Trump has already suggested that if he runs for the White House again, he could look within his adopted home state of Florida for his next running mate.

But if the former president wants Gov. Ron DeSantis on the ticket in 2024, he might have to give up his Florida address, thanks to a rarely invoked provision in the U.S. Constitution that frowns on a party nominating a president and vice president from the same state.

The 12th Amendment to the nation’s guiding document sends a straightforward message to the Electoral College on how to choose the country’s next leaders. It states: “The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.”

In layman’s terms, it means that Florida cannot vote for both a president and vice president who are Floridians.


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Would Trump leave Florida to make DeSantis his running mate? He might have to. (Original Post) teach1st Jul 2021 OP
Well that will also be instore for o'l tricky dicky ricky scott also.... mitch96 Jul 2021 #1
TFG doesn't acknowledge the Constitution. sinkingfeeling Jul 2021 #2
Dick Cheney was perhaps a Texas resident when murielm99 Jul 2021 #3
From the article in the OP teach1st Jul 2021 #5
TFG would ask DeSantis to move. zuul Jul 2021 #4
Exactly my thought. Bristlecone Jul 2021 #6
Interesting. Dreampuff Aug 2021 #7

mitch96

(14,673 posts)
1. Well that will also be instore for o'l tricky dicky ricky scott also....
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 06:47 PM
Jul 2021

Although I think DeSatin and SCott want the catbird seat, not second fiddle...
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murielm99

(31,448 posts)
3. Dick Cheney was perhaps a Texas resident when
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 06:55 PM
Jul 2021

he ran as Dubya's VP. It went to court. The court ruled that he was a Wyoming resident. I never believed it.

They will do or say anything. I don't trust either DeSantis or TFG to follow the law.

teach1st

(5,966 posts)
5. From the article in the OP
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 07:00 PM
Jul 2021
If Trump moved, it wouldn’t be the first time a change of address preceded a presidential election. In 2000, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney both called Texas home — until Cheney picked up and went to Wyoming just as Bush tapped him to be his running mate. A legal challenge to Cheney’s claim to the Electoral College votes from Texas failed in the courts, with the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately declining to intervene. Cheney served two terms as Bush’s vice president.

Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar said judges should be “very hesitant” to question the decisions of where people want to live and said Trump could switch his residency in late 2024 without sparking a Constitutional conundrum.


Trump, possessing little or no respect for law as it applies to himself, can get around it easily.

Dreampuff

(778 posts)
7. Interesting.
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 07:13 PM
Aug 2021

Neither of them follow the rules and they would probably just argue the issue and intimidate anyone who questions them. On the flip side, Trump might just claim New Jersey as his home state since he spends Summers at Bedminster Golf Resort.

I agree with those of you who believe that deathsantis may not want to take the back seat and may just run for president himself.

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