Maine jumps in, disqualifying Trump from appearing on its primary ballots:
The Supreme Court is definitely going to have to weigh in and explicitly say that Trump was never convicted of insurrection, so for any state to come to a unilateral conclusion that Trump did lead an insurrection—despite mountains of evidence to the contrary—is essentially illegal and/or unconstitutional. States will have to find a different basis for exclusion.
Nikki Haley, meanwhile, has made the news for somehow skirting the issue of slavery after being given a town-hall question about the root causes of the Civil War. I'm open-minded enough to entertain arguments that the Civil War had more than one root cause, but if you're not mentioning slavery as at least one of the root causes (see my old post here), I want what you're smoking.
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Could Nikki Haley have torched her own campaign? I heard that, the very next day after the town hall, she finally talked about how of course slavery was a fundamental cause of the Civil War, but the PR damage has already been done, and the optics* suck.
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*In political discussions, when people use the term optics, they're talking about how someone or something looks. If Biden were to visit the Holocaust Museum and start pissing on the property, for example, that would be bad optics.
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