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laws are applied as written. this report is titled if you ain t first, you re last. one of the co-authors joins me now. he s a practicing attorney and professor at the college of william and mary. thank you for being here. share with me the conclusion beyond which i have described. you took a look at all 50 state laws and what did you find? so in 28 state, the sore loser laws would prohibit somebody who lost the primary from running as an independent or a third-party candidate. for somebody like donald trump, what that means if it he were able to get ballot acts is in every state that he basically won in either 16 or 20, less the ones that would bar him under the sore loser law, he would only win 81 electoral votes. that puts a road block. a felon looked at this issue and came to a different

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would be denied ballot access in 28 states, totaling 290 electoral votes if sore loser laws are applied as written. this report is titled if you ain t first, you re last . one of the coauthors joins me now, a practicing attorney and an adjunct professor at the college of william and mary. shear with me the conclusion beyond that i ve described. you take a look a look at 50 state laws and what did you find? the 28 states the sore loser laws would prohibit somebody who lost the primary from running as an patent or third-party candidate. if donald trump were able to get ballot access in every state that he basically won in either 16 or 20, less the ones that would bar him under the sore loser laws, he would only be able to win 81 electoral votes, that so puts a roadblock in any third-party plans he might have.

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independent, not as r, not as d, there are a lot of us who get shut out of the primary process. a lot of moderate candidates who can t emerge in a primary i think could be viable in a general election but are often precluded by sore loser laws from coming back. that s probably right, but keep in mind, the sore loser laws protect the democratic and republican party processes and they re the ones that control the legislatures in nearly every state in the country so changing those laws would be very difficult. right. it s like term limits. there s consensus in the country we should have term limits. i think there s consensus in washington but we need the people in washington to agree with us about term limits and they don t. you get the final word. right. i mean, again, i think our study shows it would be difficult or impossible for donald trump to run as a third party if he in fact loses the republican

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