Will Democrats replace Joe Biden as their presidential nominee?
States have pretty strict rules on last-second ballot changes, but Democrats have always found ways to get courts to rewrite laws for them at the last second.
The real problem for Democrats is political: Removing Biden as nominee requires them to deny and reject the election results of their voters in all 50 states after they spent four years accusing everyone else of being "Election deniers." They also will have a very hard time removing Biden as nominee but leaving him in as president.
If he's not mentally fit to be on the campaign trail or debate stage, how on Earth can he be fit enough to remain as president? The downsides of that strategy are immense, with little upside.
So if they manage to get rid of Biden both as nominee and as president, they end up stuck with her, which might even be worse than doing nothing.
Do they really want to be in the position of preventing the first female president from running as an incumbent? And can they sideline her while promoting another white dude like Gavin Newsom when their entire party is built around identity politics?
So the predicament for Democrats right now is they have to somehow find out how to get rid of Biden as the nominee, keep him as president, and prevent the black woman who is currently vice president from being the nominee.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/28/can-dems-just-dump-biden-and-move-on-its-not-that-simple/
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