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
they vary across the country. some states would accept those votes. some states would say the sore loser law apollutes. we re not going to count those. i haven t done a separate study, but that would be harder. the number of candidates who get elect ed using a write-in campaign for major national office is slim to none. why do we have sore loser laws? sore loser laws are designed about 100 years ago or so, and they kind of protect the party nominees from somebody who lost this a political party primary and says, you want to run in the general any way. the idea if you lost, you lost. you don t get a second bite of the aptal and won a primary. i would argue they are outdated to the extent they served a useful purpose. where gal up says 42% of the count truss regards themselves as independent, they are a lot of us who get shut out of the
up ahead, nine years ago this week, mh 370 vanished despite a search costing hundreds of millions of dollars, they never found the plane. what do we know of its fate? plus if donald trump doesn t win the nomination, could he still up end the race by running as a third party candidate? thot if you do a close reading of several state laws in place. they are called sore loser laws. please go to smerconish.com and register for the free daily newsletter. answer this week s poll question. is the failure of civil con valley bank an isolated event or broader financial contagion? toe our money. i keep eating all these chia seeds. i could live to be 100. we work with empower, even if we do live to 10100 we don t have to worry. eh, not worried. take control of your financncial future to empower what s next. when it comes to reducing sugar in your family s diet, the more choices,
did and criticizing the science and they aren t following the science and science doesn t apply to millions of people and it does apply to novak djokovic. i don t even like talking about the science when you re talking about medical freedom and i don t care if the vaccine works or doesn t work i don t care for stops transmission, medical freedom is medical freedom, when people say i hear this all the time even people who were antilock down, would it doesn t stop transmission there s no reason what we need to do is talk about medical freedom and say what s awkward to be allowed in the future because what happened is lunacy. that s certainly conversation to move forward so it doesn t happen again. coming up on the big sunday show sore loser, congressman
contribution to the conversation. pete: maybe a little distracting talking about brady going somewhere else before he plays the playoff. lawrence: that s what we want. pete: that s what lawrence wants. let s check in with senior mealing just janice dean. janice: i m very glad that fantasy football is over. rachel: me too. janice: so glad it s over. i m never doing it again. it s terrible. pete: you will be in next year. janice: oh no, i won t. one and done. over. i m a sore loser by the way. lawrence: good sport. janice: do i get a trophy for that. rachel: we get participation trophies. janice: get to the weather j.d. it s cold. it s cold in new york and cold as far as south as florida my friends. it is freezing. mickey is freezing his tail off. take a look at it. advisories for the sunshine state and more of the same that we have been deal with for weeks across california.