poweroflegend

In your opinion, was the Senate’s stonewall of Merrick Garland’s nomination constitutional? If so, how do we prevent future nominations from being held hostage again by a hostile Senate in the future?

Here's the short version:

The US political system has 2 major parties. We have a few smaller parties, but they're all on the fringe and have an almost zero chance of electing a representative to any public office, much less the presidency. On our national election day (November 8), the voters will choose between one nominee from each of the two parties to elect the next President of the United States. Prior to that, each of the two major parties holds a smaller contest (a primary or caucus) in each of our 50 states between all the people who would like to be that party's nominee in November. These smaller contests are staggered throughout the year, from January through June or July, and are added together to determine who will be the nominee for each party.

At this point, only four states have voted. Today is the first time we'll see more than one state vote on the same day, and it's the largest number of states that vote simultaneously, with 13 different states and territories voting, encompassing a wide range of demographics and political opinions. While it's unlikely that anyone will win enough votes to absolutely guarantee that they will be the nominee, there's a strong possibility that today could give one or two of them a large enough lead in the process as to be insurmountable. And it's almost guaranteed that the race will narrow down to a handful of potential candidates after today, with the people who don't have a chance dropping out.

The best Trump could to today would be to win such a large lead that it will be pretty much impossible for someone to beat him over the rest of the season, essentially guaranteeing that he will be one of the two people American voters will choose between in November. It's not possible for him to win the presidency today, or any day prior to November 8.

Does that make sense?