Does the following scenario make any sense?
It comes to light that the winning candidate for president committed election law felonies in order to win the election but is shielded from indictment for those crimes because . . . he is the president.
To someone untrained in the law and Justice Department protocols, it seems an analogous case might involve an ambitious vice president who puts poison in the president's cheeseburger. If his scheme is not discovered until after the president consumes the cheeseburger, then the former vice president, now the president, cannot be indicted for his offense until he leaves office. He's the president and can't be troubled with defending himself in court. Duh!
If, however, the Secret Service learns of the plot and intercepts the cheeseburger just before the president takes a fateful bite, then sure, indict the would-be murderer, try him, send him to prison, because justice should be swift if the criminal fails to execute his plan to a successful conclusion.
Kicker: there is a statute of limitations for the election-law offenses, so by the time the president isn't president anymore, it may no longer be possible to prosecute him for the crimes he committed in order to win the presidency. The constitutional remedy is impeachment (we are told by senators who have never opposed the crooked president on anything and wouldn't vote to convict him in an impeachment trial unless an angel of God were to whisper, no shout, into their ears).
Speaking of God and his angels, the above graphs show that, among white voters in 2018, such journalistically trumpeted categories as gender and collar color hardly account for anything compared to whether the voter is a 0 or 1 on the Evangelical question. It's not that Democrats can't get white people to vote for them. It's that they can't get white people who go to church a lot to vote for them. It's a very modest exaggeration to say that in America being nonwhite is politically determinative and, among whites, so is being evangelical. It's the religiously casual whites who are up for grabs!
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