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Subject: Re: If Biden Loses Televised Debate, Can He Be Replaced?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:36:36 -0400
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:01:49 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

>If President Biden is viewed as the loser of Thursday night's presidential 
>debate against former President Donald Trump, it may accelerate months-long 
>speculation that he could be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee 
>in 2024.
>
>Back in mid-February, New York Magazine considered the possibility of 
>replacing the elderly 81-year-old president as the nominee. "From a political 
>perspective, the idea that Biden might be dumped from the ticket is extremely 
>far-fetched," New York Magazine wrote. "But technically it is possible, 
>though increasingly complicated, right up to Election Day."
>
>ABC News pointed out two types of delegates existed in the Democratic Party: 
>pledged delegates, who are allotted to candidates based on the votes in state 
>primaries but while assumed to be loyal to that candidate, are not legally 
>required to support the candidate, and "superdelegates," who become delegates 
>from their jobs, whether they are DNC members or political office holders. 
>Those delegates, too, are not legally bound to any candidate.
>
>"In most states, delegates are released from their obligations if a candidate 
>withdraws from the race," NY Magazine explained.
>
>The Hill reported that Democratic senators are insisting that speculation 
>Biden could be replaced is nonsense. One senator told The Hill, "There's no 
>way in hell that's true. Not a chance in hell that's true. I don't know what 
>to say." A Democratic consultant added, "If people mention that, if it's 
>talked about in settings, even if somebody says we need to have an 
>alternative, it's not really taken as something that seriously could happen. 
>You're in a conversation with somebody, somebody says, 'Do we have a backup?' 
>Something like that. Because, honestly, (Vice-President) Kamala Harris is not 
>really seen as ready for prime time."
>
>The last time an incumbent president was denied his party's nomination 
>occurred in 1884, when the GOP's Chester Arthur lost the nomination to his 
>Secretary of State, James G. Blaine. Blaine narrowly lost the election to 
>Democrat Grover Cleveland.
>
>New York Magazine opined that the only likely way that Biden would not be the 
>nominee would be if he voluntarily stepped down, an unlikely possibility, but 
>if he did the nomination would almost certainly go to Vice President Kamala 
>Harris, as "any other choice would not only infuriate Harris and her 
>supporters; it would also retroactively label Biden's first decision as party 
>leader in 2020 as a mistake."
>
>Earlier this month, Business Insider offered these possible replacements for 
>Biden should he not be the nominee: Kamala Harris, governors Gavin Newsom 
>(D-CA), Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), Roy Cooper (D-N.C.), and Wes Moore (D-MD), 
>and senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

The knives are out already.