Democrats don't have a candidate until the conference. So no legal problem.
Butthurt Republicans are flummoxed and trying to think of some way avoid a real election because they know they will lose
I put the odds at 100% that Trump, if he loses , will try to fight this legally and not concede. Poor Donny the Alpha male is always fighting about how the system is rigged agains him.
Oh I get it. I was thinking if Biden resigned as president, then Harris would automagically be the current sitting president. That's not the same thing - I get it.
I love it. The same Trump lovers screaming about the delegate vote process being fair and enshrined in the Constitution are complaining about the unfairness of the delegate process. Get your empty heads in the game for once!
Never said it was in the Constitutiion, but it is subject to state laws who can legally appear on the ballot. The Dems helped put those laws in place and are actively trying to use them to block Kennedy in a number of states. Would only be appropriate if those laws (that they helped enact to discourage competition) are turned against them.
Joe Biden selflessly gave up his second term to allow a new generation of talented and diverse politicians to govern the country after him. Now he can focus on being the best president ever for the last 6 months of his political career. I marvel at the depths of patriotism, excellence and concern for humanity in the Democratic Party.
He did go kicking and screaming. Selflessly backing out would have been months ago.
They should whip up some online voting for registered Democrats. Not by state. But nationwide.
Select 16 candidates. Have an online vote next week. Top 8 move on in a vote the week after that. Then 4. Then 2. Then have a vote on those 2. Then let the delegates go with that person or not.
That will quickly give the best idea of who the voters want. I never liked the idea of early states getting more choices and say.
Why just registered democrats? Anything less than undocumented migrants would be a return to Jim Crow
I put the odds at 100% that Trump, if he loses , will try to fight this legally and not concede. Poor Donny the Alpha male is always fighting about how the system is rigged agains him.
The system is rigged.
Against us
You mean the same Democratic system we've had since the birth of our nation? You are welcome to leave if you don't accept america.
Joe Biden selflessly gave up his second term to allow a new generation of talented and diverse politicians to govern the country after him. Now he can focus on being the best president ever for the last 6 months of his political career. I marvel at the depths of patriotism, excellence and concern for humanity in the Democratic Party.
He did go kicking and screaming. Selflessly backing out would have been months ago.
But he went and boy how awesome was his timing! Why are you so bothered by it?
I love it. The same Trump lovers screaming about the delegate vote process being fair and enshrined in the Constitution are complaining about the unfairness of the delegate process. Get your empty heads in the game for once!
Never said it was in the Constitutiion, but it is subject to state laws who can legally appear on the ballot. The Dems helped put those laws in place and are actively trying to use them to block Kennedy in a number of states. Would only be appropriate if those laws (that they helped enact to discourage competition) are turned against them.
If they are laws then there is nothing wrong with exercising them. Kennedy needs to sort himself put. He could have run against Trump since he's really a R.
Joe Biden selflessly gave up his second term to allow a new generation of talented and diverse politicians to govern the country after him. Now he can focus on being the best president ever for the last 6 months of his political career. I marvel at the depths of patriotism, excellence and concern for humanity in the Democratic Party.
He did go kicking and screaming. Selflessly backing out would have been months ago.
100% Biden's decision was not selfless or heroic. He was pushed out. He overstayed far too long because of his ego.
Never said it was in the Constitutiion, but it is subject to state laws who can legally appear on the ballot. The Dems helped put those laws in place and are actively trying to use them to block Kennedy in a number of states. Would only be appropriate if those laws (that they helped enact to discourage competition) are turned against them.
If they are laws then there is nothing wrong with exercising them. Kennedy needs to sort himself put. He could have run against Trump since he's really a R.
Besides, I’m not a Trump humper. I voted against him in the primary (because my party gave me a choice). Your party chose to anoint an incapable Biden and keep everyone else of consequence off the primary ballot. Now, they want to choose his replacement by putting someone who was not on the primary ballot in his place (unless you believe they will replace him with Jason Palmer, the first to win a primary against an incumbent since Jimmy Carter in 1980).
to choose their candidate? They’ve known for a long time that Biden boy has dementia. Are they trying to skip democracy?
Are you stupid? The Dems haven't even had their convention yet; no one has been nominated. Harris is running for nomination but isn't confirmed. Biden wasn't even confirmed yet.
The party nominating system is not a direct democratic system. It is a political process established by the parties. Trump was a beneficiary of that system in 2016. Trump won most of the early primaries by a plurality of 30-40% of the vote (lost TX to Ted Cruz). But he shot into the lead on pledged delegates because the primaries are winner takes all contest. That in and of itself is not democratic in that a majority of voters opposed Trump in the early primaries. Had Republicans organized against Trump the way Dems did against Bernie in 2020, he would have probably lost the primary to Cruz or Rubio. But since both candidates stayed in, they essentially handed Trump a plurality win in the primaries.
Biden and the Dems are operating under the same system except instead of getting a nomination by a plurality, Biden is exercising the right of any candidate pledge their delegates to another candidate. The Dems may open up the convention to other challengers to Harris, but that process is entirely the party's prerogative and does not require any participation by the voters.
Is this a stupid process? Yes. It is. The primaries should be a nationwide ballot with a runoff of the top two vote getters if there is no 50%+1 winner. That would be democratic. The primary system has never been democratic for either side.