| With one-in-three Democrats now saying that Joe Biden should not be their presidential nominee for the November election following last week’s, questions are being raised as to just how he might be switched out.
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But more difficult than the 25th Amendment complications are the difficulties trying to replace Biden as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, especially now that he has“That’s very difficult and complicated because in recent decades these rules have become state by state as they have moved to make their presidential primary result binding on their delegates to the party convention,” McConnell toldHe suspects, however, that if delegates really wanted to they could just break the law, vote for...
“So if an elector refuses to vote for the candidate and is subject to something like a $US1000 fine, I can imagine delegates at a convention saying, ‘I’ll pay the $US1000 fine to rescue the country from a calamity’,” McConnell said.If Biden does give up on the nomination before next month’s Democratic National Convention, all his delegates would become uncommitted.
There is one hitch for Democrats, though, according to Belt – and that involves whether Democrats actually announce their nominee before their convention.He said the US state of Ohio has a rule that any presidential nominee needs to be declared before August 10, but the Democrat convention, where delegates vote and officially declare their nominee, is on August 19.
The date of that roll call has still not been set, but it will have to be before the August 10 deadline.