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choie

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5. No he won't.

Reply to randr (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:21 AM

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There’s nothing in the constitution that says elections can be stopped due to a war or insurrection. Elections took place during the Civil War, and all other wars since.

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