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originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: putnam6
Hillary would be greeted with open arms after Joe's performance tonight. I can see them watching her last debate with 2016 candidate Trump, and wanting to re-create that for debate #2 this year, with Hillary replacing Biden.
If Biden were to drop out between now and when he's scheduled to be formally nominated in August, it would create a free-for-all among Democrats since there is no mechanism for him or anyone else to anoint a chosen successor.
It takes a majority of the roughly 4,000 pledged delegates to win the party’s nomination. Biden’s won 3,900 of them. Under recent reforms, the party’s more than 700 superdelegates — Democratic lawmakers and dignitaries — are allowed to vote only if no one wins a majority of pledged delegates on the first ballot, so their votes could be crucial in a contested convention.
Since Biden's opponents all won effectively no delegates throughout the Democratic nominating process, there'd be a virtual clean slate heading into the convention, and the decision would likely come down to the convention delegates who were initially pledged to Biden.
Biden would have some influence over his pledged delegates, but ultimately, they can vote as they please so candidates would likely campaign aggressively to win over each individual delegate.
However, there's a potentially important wrinkle: Democrats plan to formally nominate Biden virtually ahead of the late-August convention to sidestep any potential concerns about ballot access in Ohio, where a technical quirk has complicated things
Democrats decided to plan a virtual nomination for Biden after Ohio Republicans balked at passing pro-forma legislation that would allow Biden to be on the ballot, even though the convention falls after a state deadline. But while Republicans passed a law to shift the deadline, Democrats decided to move forward with a virtual nomination nonetheless.
originally posted by: 5thHead
originally posted by: RazorV66
Fox News just had RFK jr on…..
He sounded almost worse than Biden did, not sure what was going on there.
Well what do you expect, a worm ate part of his brain off.
originally posted by: RazorV66
Fox News just had RFK jr on…..
He sounded almost worse than Biden did, not sure what was going on there.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Lumenari
Okay...so just spitballing here...
So the Dems can just trot Newsom out there as the new democratic candidate without doing anything else?
I am inclined to very much believe what you say, but I'm just asking. I mean, could they really just go...
"Welp, folks, due to unforeseen circumstances Joe Biden is out as candidate for president and his replacement is going to be California's Gavin Newsom!"
...and there's no legal recourse to do anything about that?
Just trying to understand because honestly, something like this has never happened before (to the best of my knowledge). So, I've never even thought to research such an option, legally.
Trump Indicted For Murdering Elderly Man On CNN
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Jun 27, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
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LAS VEGAS — Tonight's presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN.
"Hey, I didn't do anything!" Trump told authorities. "He was like that when I got here!"
Trump, who had planned to debate President Joe Biden, argued that the strange old man keeled over all on his own.
originally posted by: RazorV66
Fox News just had RFK jr on…..
He sounded almost worse than Biden did, not sure what was going on there.
originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
Biden should be in a facility/hospital getting help, not in the oval office running America.
How can the old school blue dog democrats vote for this?