Like. I remember something about how (at least in some states) you’re really voting for a party ticket. And then the party that wins gets that many electoral college voters from that party who then vote. And I believe the only requirement is they vote for the party that won the votes to appoint them as electorers, and that’s not even a requirement everywhere.
It was the small piece of truth that led to Trump’s false elector plan last election. The only reason it didn’t work, was his false electors weren’t legitimately appointed.
So trump could both not be able to remove his name from ballots, but still drop out of the race and no longer be the candidate.
It’s two different things with an incredibly strong correlation, but they don’t always have to be the same.
I didn’t bother to dig in and verify that tho, I may be wrong. But I didn’t spend the time to do it and went off memory because trump just ain’t dropping out no matter what.