“The Idea… Is Lunacy

A.B. Stoddard: "I don’t think Trump has any intention of leaving...He’s either going to find a way to try to run for second term or cancel the election or pass it off to Don Jr....The idea that he’s going to give up [the adulation and money] is lunacy." pic.twitter.com/313ZSZQR0o

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 24, 2026

I really, really want to know the mechanism for any of this.

“Find a way to run for a second [third?] term?” How? Look under a rock? Sign an executive order? Get the GOP in all 50 states to allow him on the ballot? The man is polling at 30%. What looked like an attempt to appease Sen. Tillis and get his nominee on the Fed Board fell flat when his press secretary insisted the Fed investigation continues. What, he’s suddenly going to become sensible between now and 2028, and appeal to voters in ways he couldn’t in 2020? If he can get on the ballot. Which he can’t.

“Cancel the election”? Again: the constitutional mechanism for that is? I’d understood the argument was federal elections were conducted by the states.  Art. I, sec. 4, U.S. constitution, right? How does Trump cancel the state elections? Executive order? What is the clause in Section II giving the POTUS that authority?

Please show your work.

“…pass it off to Don, Jr.”? What, under primogeniture?

This is a farce.

Trump didn’t give it up last time. He incited a riot, when 60 some odd lawsuits failed and Pence refused to play his part in the scheme and Trump’s legal brain trust thought they could throw the certification to the ghost of Scalia.

None of that was destined to work, in other words. And it was still a damned sight more sensible than this 👆nonsense.