NO.
This is an odd fact about the 1860 election. Lincoln was not listed on 10 state ballots (Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida).
John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party (the alternate-path Whig Party) was the guy listed in the ten states in question. In several cases, Bell came close to a state win (Georgia for example, he had almost 42-percent of the vote).
So in the end, Lincoln had collected enough Electoral votes because of the four-party election.
I should add...in the case of New York and New Jersey.....they only allowed Lincoln on the ballot, leaving off the three other candidates.
Probably worth bringing up that South Carolina decided not to hold a Presidential election, and used the state legislative process....letting them assign the eight electors to Breckenridge (the Southern Democratic Party). All the way from the 1700s...to this point....elections were avoided. 1868? The state went to the election process to determine the Electoral College situation.
So if you were wondering....could Trump be denied on the ballot of ten states....could he still win? Well....history says 'yes'. I might go as far to suggest twenty states could be denied and he could still win the Electoral College. Shocker? Oh, I would imagine thousands of journalists have never reviewed the 1860 election or its consequences.
The final question....if a Trump win occurred with only thirty states listing him on the ballot? Yeah, it'd be the path for some 1860 dissolving of society....Civil 'Woke' War.
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