The whole “he has to be convicted of insurrection” argument isn’t even the precedent.

Even more important, the 14th Amendment says nothing about a requirement of conviction for the person to be excluded for eligibility because of insurrection. Specifically mentioning "conviction" as a requirement is used elsewhere in the Constitution for other things (impeachment as an example), so its not on the concept is foreign to the document.

States are free to run their elections however they want, as long as they end up sending the correct number of electors to DC. You'd think the "states rights" crowd would know and support that.

The whole thing is kinda silly anyways since the primaries aren’t “real” elections. The RNC can pick any candidate they want regardless of the outcome of the primaries. They make their own rules so that can change them to whatever they want. For example because Trump has been removed from the ballot in Colorado (including as a write-in), the GOP is likely to petition the RNC to allow them to caucus, which is way less formal and more chaotic in my opinion, but is a loophole since there is no ballot.

Of course this all depends on what SCOTUS does with respect to the 14th amendment. Even that is kinda sketchy since, like you said, there have been candidates removed from ballots that were not convicted let alone even tried. Although Congress posthumously lifted the disqualification from Lee in 1975, and Davis in 1978. There was one candidate removed but he was actually convicted, a Victor Berger from Wisconsin. But even that conviction was overturned by SCOTUS and he later ran and won. I guess you could say no one really has the balls to test it properly.

This is what I am trying to find out about for myself. Does he need to be convicted of something somewhere? I was just looking for info about this yesterday and all I can find is Jack Smith and Colorado stuff. I care about 14th amendment stuff because nothing else matters.

Oh look, the traitors are doxxing her and implying stochastic terrorism.

These piles of trash need to be deported. They aren't American any longer.

"you can always tell the crazies by their stickers"... Yep sure can. And I see a lot more of that from the right than I do anyone else sooooo....

Wow. That was a lot of things, but journalism is not one of them.

My word, they are terrible. Also, WTAF is a "neocommunist"?

Honestly same, but I'm all in for it

Even in solid red or blue states, there’s always 15-40% that consistently vote the other way. Maybe not in bumfuck county specifically, but overall throughout any given state, there’s at least 1-in-6 people who probably never vote Republican at worst, and more than 1-in-3 at best. That’s a lot of people.

Louisiana does look especially bad though - worse than being a Democrat in TX or FL even.