Yesterday was the second day of the 65th annual USSA National Student Congress, and it was mostly been given over to workshops and caucus/region/committee meetings. But there was also a lot of discussion in the meetings and the hallways about legislation and regulations to put forward at Monday’s plenaries, and a new electric charge in the air.
The big event of the day was nominations for national officers, which took place at lunch and set up the most interesting, and least predictable, USSA leadership race in a very long time.
For several decades, each year’s USSA vice president has run for — and won — the presidency. This means that running for veep, in practice, has meant