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John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com)
Multiple outlets are reporting that Ohio Gov. John Kasich plans to suspend his run to be the GOP presidential nominee. The move, if happens, would make Donald Trump the presumptive nominee for the GOP. The report comes hours after Kasich abruptly cancelled a planned press conference (could be paywalled; alternate source) in Virginia on Wednesday morning. LA Times reports: Kasich, the Ohio governor, had pledged to continue campaigning as a Trump alternative who could deny the billionaire needed delegates. But on Wednesday, he canceled a news conference in Washington and planned an announcement for later in the day in Columbus, Ohio, to drop out. Vox has more details.
Can Don still pick Hillary as his running mate?
No. The P and the VP cannot be from the same state. They are both New Yorkers.
How is this news for nerds, stuff that matters?
Short answer: It isn't.
Whipslash, et. al, I like a lot of what you've done with the site since you took over, but can we please have less political news that is not directly connected to technology? If I wanted political discussions, I'd go elsewhere. I come to /. for "news for nerds," and too much that isn't tech news is highly likely to drive away readers.
I second those who don't want to see /. go any further toward being a Reddit clone.
But they're not going to do anything to Hillary. Not because she's not guilty or there isn't a case to be made, but because having that on her gives them control over her. She's just a puppet for the wealthy and powerful.
Probably more because if they indicted everyone who ever mishandled classified information they'd put most of the govt and lots of private contractors in jail. They only indict when someone either:
* Tries to give classified data to someone they shouldn't
* Mishandles data so badly that someone else gets it
Clinton did neither. And this is all beside the point that most of the "classified data" was classified after it went through her server, or was classified by the State Dept so the Secretary of State can tell anyone she wants.
I'm always amazed how many people fall for the manufactured Clinton scandals from the right. "Oh, a Clinton is accused of something terrible. The last 10 turned out to be faked or overblown, but sure, I'll panic over this one too, because the right-wing is known for careful application of facts and logic!" Don't fall for these, please, or the next eight years will be terribly stressful for you.
Email addresses on servers they did not control. The difference, which people like yourself want to minimize is that it was HER server (not AOL, Not Hotmail, not Yahoo!, and not Google. It was her private email server. And it was clearly designed to get around the Open Records requirements that were passed because of Republican versions of private email addresses that happened previously.
And, you're functionally saying "Two wrongs make it okay", rather than addressing the real concerns.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
"Suspending" the campaign is the normal way people drop out.
As I understand it, it has to do with election finance laws. The money people donated wasn't given to you personally, it was given to your campaign. So if you quit the campaign completely, you lose access to the remaining donated funds. If you "suspend" your campaign, though, you still have access to any remaining funds. While technically the donated money must be spent on campaign-related causes, in practice there's a lot of discretion people have in spending the money. For example, you can "campaign" by spending money for party ads during the general election. Or use it for your Senate reelection campaign two years from now. (The interests of "Cruz for President" [in 2020] are served by the success of "Cruz for Senate", after all.)
It would be hard to levy charges when there were two separate oversight processes, one in State one in the White House, based on an explicit memorandum specifying the ethical rubric to which Clinton signed.
If only she thinks it's okay, that's questionable, but not evidence of wrongdoing. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay, that's covered. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay and a second appointed overseer also thinks it's okay, that's responsible management of conflicts of interest.
I bet you read an article in International Business Times. Go read it again and pay attention to the part where they talked about these multiple layers of oversight.
You don't seem to know how pardons work. She doesn't have to plead guilty; Nixon for example was pardoned without ever having been charged. Accepting a pardon, however, is an admission of guilt. There would be no faster way to lose an election. Republicans would be calling for her head on a plate before the ink on the signature dried.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Fun fact: Hilary is pro-net neutrality.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Right, but didn't Cruz "suspend" his campaign and not just outright quit? So technically he's out with one foot still in the race; specifically to keep Kasich in check as I understand it.
Candidates generally always "suspend" their campaign to legally keep the ability to raise money and receive any federal matching funds. If they officially dropped out, they would not be able to raise money for the office, nor receive any federal matching campaign funds. These funds can be used to pay any campaign debts, retain/pay staff (e.g., future cronies), and can be carried over for future campaigns.
As a bonus, the parties allow you to keep you delegates if a candidate doesn't officially drop out, so they get more influence on the party planks.
no, what he said was that the states Hillary won were primarily red states that she (and he) would not win in the general election. I think you need to work on your comprehension a bit
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
Not being a lawyer I'm not going to go into which offenses committed by her is the 'most clearly illegal', but it does represent another consciously negligent act for which she can be charged.
Your attempts at mockery say otherwise.
Don't you ever get tired of "But... Bush!!!" ?
Except there was a whole bunch of classified info in there, which is why the FBI came asking for the thumb drive later and why so many emails released have had some level of redaction.
That's a mighty big stretch, doubly so when Trump hasn't been authorized to receive classified information.
Exactly what have I made up?
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
She didn't serve a full term as a senator
False, she was elected in 2000 and reelected in 2006.
You are confusing Hillary with Sarah Palin, who didn't serve a full term as governor, which is why you refused to vote for Palin, right?