Now let me ask you about a different timeline here. Let’s say it is Aug. 1. The primaries are over. The delegates are selected, committed primarily now to Joe Biden, and Joe Biden has a health event or just realizes that he can’t do this. It’s not for him right now. And he steps down. What happens then so close to the convention?
Kamarck: Well, at that point, you have 4,000-and-some people who are already elected delegates on their way to Chicago. And I think that other people will throw their hat in the ring, and they’re going to have to convince those delegates in convention, because there’s not much time, right?
So you will have what you had in the old days. Delegations will meet in their hotels, and the candidates will go from hotel to hotel, or their surrogates, talking to the delegations and trying to get support. You would have the wives or the husbands being surrogates. You’d have other surrogates going to the smaller state delegations.
And in the meantime, of course, you’d have a wild social media campaign going on. You’d have polling going on. You’d have all the other things going on. It’d be pretty wild. You might need another day for the convention because there’d be so much work to do.
And odds are you’d have to go beyond one ballot for somebody to get the nomination. Odds are you’d need a first ballot just to figure out where everybody was, and then you’d probably take a break before you had your second ballot.
It would be pretty wild. I think for political reporters, Ezra, it would be the most fun of your whole life, and you’d love it. I think the voters would be absolutely tuned in to their televisions. This would be great reality TV, if you will. It would be reality politics.
The situation is this: If, after Rutabaga has been named the official nominee, he has such a massive health problem, then he drops out and the DNC can name his replacement. The problem with that is, it can ONLY be Harris. No way that can happen unless he also resigns from the presidency. It’s almost impossible for any DemoKKKrat to claim that he’s incapable of being a nominee but is fully capable of being Pres.
So Harris replaces him as Pres. (Remember, SHE is the ONLY ONE who can use Biden/Harris campaign money, which is drying up). She then names a veep WHOM THE HOUSE MUST APPROVE (doubtful they’d approve someone who would significantly help her ticket—might even delay). Now SHE has to run on all of Rutabaga’s weaknesses, his policies, without bringing a single new strength to the table, and now has LESS money.
They are trapped. Been saying it for months.