So that’s something I’m curious about too. Some states were holding off on ruling since the GOP primaries are technically “private party”. It’s not till they actually submit him that he can be challenged on the general ballot. So if that pops up, I assume the GOP would need to submit an alternate or none at all, or you’re gonna see a whole rash of new lawsuits and appeals. At the point will there be enough time?

They are going to ignore all laws that are inconvenient to them:

IF Trump isn’t permitted to run, maybe they’ll run with a placeholder, then have Trump be shoehorned-in somehow, perhaps by Republican-electorate decree…

Legalists, same today as in Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph’s day, pick & choose which pieces of the letter-of-the-law that they acknowledge.

That has always been their fundamental tactic, along with gaslighting.

Notice how the West held-to Natural Law ( morally-based Law ) in prosecuting Nazis, but … as soon as that was done … the West decided that Legal Posit-ivism ( legalism ) is the West’s right, and nobody has any right to be threatening any privilege through moral-law, as legalism prohibited that sort of behaviour.

Nothing’s changed: human-nature is the same, now, as it was back in the Christian bible’s times.

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The GOP Primary is not over, not until Super Tuesday at least. Haley can stay in the race as long as she has money to continue campaigning and being visible, and I don’t think she has any problems raising money.

If something were to happen to make Trump ineligible (either via the 14th amendment, a conviction, or a medical issue), the party would have to pick another candidate at the convention, and right now Haley is the only other candidate who can send delegates. The more delegates she earns, the less work she has to do to broker the outcome she wants. So she may stay in all the way to the convention, as long as she has the money to.

(The only caveat is that I thought most Republican primaries were winner-take-all for delegates, I guess NH is not though, because Haley is reported as earning 9 out of 22 delegates.)