>>3415576>Why are candidates allowed to vote, when it's glaringly obvious that they would vote for themselves?Why wouldn’t they be? They’re still citizens; they still should get to vote on whether or not they want themselves to be president. And they have to vote for everything else on their ballot, and ballots are secret, so there’s no way to prevent them from voting for president.
>Has a presidential candidate ever openly admitted to voting for anyone but himself Probably, because there are a lot of wacky third-party candidates no one ever hears about. I don’t know how you’d even begin to do the research on that, though.
>Bipartisan presidencyYes, because the original constitutional plan was for the runner up to be Vice President, so that happened right after Washington (who was famously anti-political-parties) left office. This was the early days of democracy, so people didn’t realize that political parties are basically a fundamental feature of democracy because it’s the only way to win a majority of votes without being a godlike general who founded the country.
It only took one administration of that for them to realize it was a bad idea, though, so they tried to work around that in the next election, then just amended the constitution for the one after that. I don’t think it’s happened since then.
Yes, Puerto Rican’s are natural US citizens, so they can run for President.
There are no rules for what happens if someone lacking the qualifications to run for President runs and wins. Most likely, it would go to the Supreme Court—fun fact, we’ve all sort of decided by consensus what “natural born citizen” means, but it’s never actually been defined for real or tested, so there’s a decent chance that the Supreme Court could rule that its close enough that the kid never knew any country but the US and has no foreign allegiances, especially if the kid’s party had a majority on the court at the time
