Quote Originally Posted by sunofdarkchild View Post
I don't think so. It was a telepathic vote where the candidates made their pitches to everyone at the same time. And the exact results and who voted for who were not revealed. It makes no sense for Sam to run for any reason under those circumstances. All he'd get is the embarrassment of all of mutantdom knowing he wasn't serious. I'm pretty sure at this point the fan-vote characters were not all in the running in-universe.
You are making an inference about something that just is not there. We were told that he was running and until someone comes out and says none of that was non canon, that is what we are supposed to believe. You dont have to but its canon right now that he did