Tony Quinn, a well-known California political consultant and commentator on politics, here argues that Ted Cruz does not meet the constitutional qualifications to be President.
Quinn is wrong when he says Cruz is the first person to run for President who is not a natural-born citizen. Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Roger Calero was born in Nicaragua and when he ran for President in 2004 and 2008, was not a citizen. Thanks to AroundtheCapitol for the link.
Last month, Rod Silva announced that he has formed the Nutrition Party and that he will be its 2016 presidential nominee. He has since qualified to appear on the November 2016 Colorado ballot. Here is the campaign web page. Silva owns a restaurant chain that is focused on only serving healthful food. So far he does not have a vice-presidential running mate.
The Prohibition Party has also already qualified to appear on the Colorado ballot for President. The ballot-qualified parties in Colorado are Republican, Democratic, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian.
Here is a 6-minute film showing the conversation that ensued when the presidential nominees of the Transhumanist Party and the Cyber Party met each other for the first time. Zoltan Istvan is the nominee of the Transhumanist Party and John McAfee is the nominee of the Cyber Party. There are a few minutes of their initial meeting over dinner, and then a few minutes of more conversation the next day. Thanks to Jacque Donahue for the link.
The South Dakota independent presidential petition deadline for 2016 is August 4, not April 26. The September 1, 2015 Ballot Access News print edition erroneously said that deadline had been moved to April.
Some years earlier, the independent presidential petition deadline had been moved out of section 12-7-1 and into a separate section, 12-7-7. The January 1, 2016 print edition of Ballot Access News will have a presidential petitioning chart showing the August 4 deadline.
On December 21, Senator Lindsey Graham said he is “suspending” his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. December 21 is the deadline for a candidate in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary to withdraw his or her name from the ballot, and Graham has withdrawn from that primary today. Earlier Governor Bobby Jindal had also withdrawn from the South Carolina presidential primary. But 13 names remain on the South Carolina Republican ballot.
