# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5203 "2016-08-25T22:49:33Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> You mean, is it custard or jelly?
Pretty sure Trump’s filled with something else.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5204 "2016-08-25T22:49:50Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Really doubt it’s an issue worth worrying about. No one thinks he’s going to win there anyway so it’s rather pointless to dig into the weeds and see if your tweeter has a case.
Yeah, since when has this place been about facts or knowledge?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5205 "2016-08-25T23:00:04Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Yeah, since when has this place been about facts or knowledge?
It’s not going to be fact or knowledge until someone actually challenges the electors selection. Until then it’s just somebody’s tweets. Somebody who got fired over a sex scandal in the State Senate and plead guilty for a single car accident while intoxicated, according to a quick look at his wiki page.
> **[Michael Brodkorb](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brodkorb)**
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> Michael Brodkorb is an American communications consultant, media specialist, researcher, author and former Minnesota Republican activist.
> He graduated from high school in Forest Lake, Minnesota in 1992. He attended both the University of Minnesota Duluth and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
> He lives in Eagan, Minnesota, with his wife and three children.\[citation needed\]
> Brodkorb's work as a special correspondent to the Star Tribune led him to author his first book, The Girls Are Gone...
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5206 "2016-08-25T23:05:57Z")
What on earth would either of those things have to do with Trump’s alternate electors? Why is your response here to start trying to dig up dirt on the guy who noticed that the MN GOP never even got their paperwork filled?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5207 "2016-08-25T23:11:10Z")
Dig up dirt? I looked at his Wikipedia page and that is the extent I am willing to investigate this blip. Feel free to dive in and explore how this will matter at all to anyone.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5208 "2016-08-25T23:33:57Z")
Its Minnesota. Sex scandals in Minnesota tend to be wholesome and hygienic.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5209 "2016-08-25T23:56:05Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> It’s not going to be fact or knowledge until someone actually challenges the electors selection. Until then it’s just somebody’s tweets. Somebody who got fired over a sex scandal in the State Senate and plead guilty for a single car accident while intoxicated, according to a quick look at his wiki page.
> [Michael Brodkorb - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brodkorb)
What the huh? Some guy notices that Trump wasn’t on the ballet, the Trump campaign backhands their way onto the ballet and you’re response is to attack the guy who alerted the campaign that they were being idiots?
Why would you do that?
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5210 "2016-08-25T23:58:12Z")
Yeah, we were having a fun little party here, and you kind of dropped a deuce in the Dom Perignon fountain.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5211 "2016-08-26T00:04:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> What the huh? Some guy notices that Trump wasn’t on the ballet, the Trump campaign backhands their way onto the ballet and you’re response is to attack the guy who alerted the campaign that they were being idiots?
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> Why would you do that?
I don’t even want to think about Trump in a tutu.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5212 "2016-08-26T00:08:26Z")
I wouldn’t even _want_ it to work. I don’t want to be the guy who squeezes some technical legal point to stack the deck, vote-wise. If they find some loophole or procedure to fix that, more power to them. Maybe not strictly correct, but I don’t want to listen to that peckerknob whining about how unfair it all is.
The fact that he has just about no chance of winning here has no influence on that. OK, maybe just a little.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5213 "2016-08-26T00:11:01Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> It’s not going to be fact or knowledge until someone actually challenges the electors selection. Until then it’s just somebody’s tweets.
Not exactly. Here’s an article from the Twin Cities Pioneer Press where Minnesota Republican Chairman Keith Downey explains that the alternate electors were chosen at the August state executive committee meetin yesterday - 24 Aug 16.
The article also quotes the state rules governing the selection of electors and alternates. The rules say that:
> [@](#):
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> 208.03 NOMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AND ALTERNATES.
> Presidential electors and alternates for the major political parties of this state shall be nominated by delegate conventions called and held under the supervision of the respective state central committees of the parties of this state. At least 71 days before the general election day the chair of the major political party shall certify to the secretary of state the names of the persons nominated as presidential electors, the names of persons nominated as alternate presidential electors, and the names of the party candidates for president and vice president. The chair shall also certify that the party candidates for president and vice president have no affidavit on file as a candidate for any office in this state at the ensuing general election.
Brodkorb is saying that last night’s meeting doesn’t meet that requirement. He’s also saying in his Twitter feed
[https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb](https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb)
that a number of the electors (he names names and gives links) were appointed, not elected via delegate convention.
I personally have no opinion about the legal issue and anyway, it will probably all blow over, but the fact that all these people are openly talking about what went on means it’s not “just some dude on Twitter”.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5214 "2016-08-26T00:15:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> I don’t even want to think about Trump in a tutu.
Hee.
Ooops.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5215 "2016-08-26T00:32:48Z")
Where are the Republicans speaking out in Trump’s defense after Hillary’s speech today?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5216 "2016-08-26T01:28:36Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> .
> I personally have no opinion about the legal issue and anyway, it will probably all blow over, but the fact that all these people are openly talking about what went on means it’s not “just some dude on Twitter”.
It really is though. Electors are almost purely ceremonial anyway, it doesn’t really matter how they’re chosen. Minnesota has a specific law on the books that voids the vote of a faithless elector. Also, Minnesota is assuredly going Democrat in the election, so all these guys are going to be home picking their nose election day. Given those two points, nobody but a nutjob is going to spend any real time challenging these appointments.
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5217 "2016-08-26T01:51:39Z")
I’m too drunk to do a search, but has anybody posted this yet?
[Make America Great Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1HKMyJAro)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5218 "2016-08-26T02:04:41Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> I’m too drunk to do a search, but has anybody posted this yet?
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> [Make America Great Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1HKMyJAro)
The sad thing is, there are people who would take that literally.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5219 "2016-08-26T02:18:29Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> It really is though. Electors are almost purely ceremonial anyway, it doesn’t really matter how they’re chosen. Minnesota has a specific law on the books that voids the vote of a faithless elector. Also, Minnesota is assuredly going Democrat in the election, so all these guys are going to be home picking their nose election day. Given those two points, nobody but a nutjob is going to spend any real time challenging these appointments.
If the actual chosen electors are willing to confirm personally that they were appointed, in violation of Minnesota law that specifies that they should be chosen by vote, then that is potentially a real problem and not just one dude’s ravings.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5220 "2016-08-26T02:50:22Z")
What Minnesota law says they must be selected by vote? Isn’t it a party decision?
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### Author:  [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5221 "2016-08-26T03:00:21Z")
I don’t know if this is the right thread but am I the only one who cannot stand Kellyanne Conway’s voice? I don’t know why, but it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me and I’m not usually bothered by voices that seem to bother most people.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5222 "2016-08-26T03:49:55Z")
Unless you want to start a whole thread about it, sure, I’d say you can post that here.
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