• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Whaaat, you’re telling me the people insisting that it’s literally not legally possible to run anyone but Biden at this point were full of shit?? 🙄

    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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      Well the ball is in Biden’s court. He won the primary fair-and-square, so for the most part, only he can choose to voluntarily relinquish those delegates. This is why you’re seeing so many articles about this - it’s a pressure campaign to convince Biden himself to consider stepping down.

  • Visikde@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Ah Dems finding new ways to lose
    The last time the incumbent wasn’t the nominee We got eight years of Dick

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    4 months ago

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    Under DNC rules, requests to nominate a candidate must be presented in writing and include written approval from the proposed nominee – as well as a petition with signatures from at least 300 convention delegates.

    Another complicating factor: a plan announced by the Democratic National Committee long before Biden’s disastrous debate to do a virtual roll call vote sometime before the convention.

    At the convention, each candidate would be allowed 20 minutes of supporting speeches from the people nominating and seconding them – and then there would be a roll call vote by states, in alphabetical order.

    An open convention would be “reality TV like you can’t imagine,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a DNC member.

    Then, while the primary was still underway, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, leaving Vice President Hubert Humphrey to battle it out with anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy.

    Republican Richard Nixon won the election that November and Democrats instituted a series of reforms to the nominating process to give regular voters more say.


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