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Okay, so today we're going to talk about if you can run for president from prison.

Spoil alert you can.

And it's been done before and actually it's going to be done in 2024, no matter what happens.

But we'll talk about all that.

Now, let's be clear, I'm not saying that I'm predicting that a major party candidate is going to run from prison in the next election,

but it has been done before and everybody's already kind of talking about that historic example.

It's Eugene Debs of the Socialist Party in 1920.

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Got nearly a million vote, 913,000 votes. That's a lot of votes in that time.

It was 3.4% of the total electorate in 1920.

Not enough to win a single state's electoral votes, but a significant amount.

In the previous election, I note that both parties had solicited the Socialist Party vote for them.

Eugene Debs is the example of somebody who totally ran a campaign from prison.

We're going to talk about it, but they're missing one crucial detail about it.

Well, about the whole story.

It's something that I haven't heard anyone bring up.

I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

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