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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?? 🙄
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.
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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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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