The laws for presidential elections are sometimes different and I think always in the less restrictive direction, even some states with outright prohibitions on sore loser candidates for Congress or other offices have an exemption for presidential candidates. So applied to Trump's case, there's a lot less in the way of an independent run for a president than there would be for Congress or most other offices.

Michael Kang

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It’s not that there’s lack of legal authority, it’s totally conceivable that you could have a law like that in theory.

An interesting take on this is that you could imagine it would change campaigning a little bit – because everyone would have to show up. There would n’t be as much emphasis on that.