Every presidential candidate in modern United States history has released his or her tax returns in the general election.
The lone exception, of course, is Donald Trump, who is taking a break from his busy schedule of tweeting and watching cable news to do the one thing he is legitimately good at: saying whatever he thinks people want to hear, in front of large campaign crowds.
With the Mueller report about to drop on Thursday, Notre Dame still smoldering, and the White House attacking migrant children and their families, the 2020 election is far from the minds of most Americans, who don't usually start paying attention to presidential campaigns until the final weeks. But several state legislatures are already preparing for November 3, 2020, by toying with a novel idea of how to force the Trump campaign to release his returns: Denying him from appearing on the ballot at all.
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