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Can Democrats Just Dump Biden And Move On? It’s Not That Simple
The Federalist ^ | June 28, 2024 | Sean Davis

Posted on 06/28/2024 2:38:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Will Democrats replace Joe Biden as their presidential nominee?

It’s not that simple, logistically or politically, as long he’s still alive. 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. Just look at what they did for Frank Lautenberg and Robert Torricelli in New Jersey. It would be a heavy lift but not an impossible one.

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.

And that brings us to the real problem for Democrats: Kamala Harris. They know she’s political kryptonite because she’s both incredibly stupid and extremely unlikeable. Democrat voters can’t even stand her. 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,...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 25thamendment; biden; impairedbiden; presidentialdebate; replacingjoe; twentyfifthamendment
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1 posted on 06/28/2024 2:38:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s not that simple, logistically or politically, as long he’s still alive.

Looks like Brandon is scheduled for suicide.

2 posted on 06/28/2024 2:39:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Disenfranchise the 81 million voters including dead people? The dead will be ticked off. They’ll be popping up out of those graves like Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The brain dead alive might also get mad.


3 posted on 06/28/2024 2:44:38 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Biden is only one accident away from making the Democrat Party very happy!


4 posted on 06/28/2024 2:45:36 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As i said elsewhere, a massive heart attack for creepy Joe would our best bet.


5 posted on 06/28/2024 2:46:41 PM PDT by exnavy
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To: PGalt

[They’ll be popping up out of those graves like Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The brain dead alive might also get mad.]

It could be a movie: “Recount of The Living Dead.”


6 posted on 06/28/2024 2:48:58 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yep... It seems the options are:

1.) Status quo (Biden remains)
2.) Remove Biden as President using 25th Amendment, Kamala becomes POTUS and the Dem candidate. Biden would become ineligible for the office. Picks someone other than Kamala to hand over his delegates?
3.) Biden remains as President but steps down as candidate due to health (gives his delegates to someone else).
4.) Dems go nuclear at their convention and replace Biden as candidate.

I think it's #1, so long as Joe refuses to leave. #2 only works if the cabinet agrees with Kamala and votes to remove. #3 is possible, but how can Biden justify not going with Kamala? Unless they pay her off somehow. #4 seems super unlikely to me.
7 posted on 06/28/2024 2:49:05 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gruesome Newsome and any other Democrat is going to have a formidable hurdle to leap to get that nomination.


8 posted on 06/28/2024 2:50:47 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hillary will give suicide holiness a call.


9 posted on 06/28/2024 2:52:55 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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Suicide in a very nice way, of course. “He died in his sleep.”

No autopsy, of course. Might reveal the 550 sleeping pills in his stomach.

That still leaves the Kamalalala problem.


10 posted on 06/28/2024 2:53:00 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: PGalt

Pretty sure Fauci could whip something up.


11 posted on 06/28/2024 2:53:08 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: PGalt

Yep those thousands of boxes of ballots that appeared at 3AM with fictitious names will have pissed off voters..


12 posted on 06/28/2024 2:53:26 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: Huskrrrr

Holiness = hotline


13 posted on 06/28/2024 2:53:41 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My money’s on a third brain aneurysm.


14 posted on 06/28/2024 2:54:20 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Huskrrrr

There’s a really bad joke in there if I can figure it out.


15 posted on 06/28/2024 2:55:08 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

idk that laws apply to Democrats but it’s likely already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.

WISCONSIN — It’s already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.

NEVADA—After tonight, the fourth Friday in June, it will be too late to remove Joe Biden.

GEORGIA—Only a few weeks remain before it will be too late to remove Biden from the ballot.

From DailyMail:

The Heritage Oversight project has set their sights on three contentious swing states where they believe taking Biden off the Democratic ticket would not allow anyone else to replace him: Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.

Wisconsin does not allow withdrawal from the ballot for any reason besides death.

In Nevada, no changes can be made to the ballot after 5 p.m. on the fourth Friday in June of an election year or ‘a nominee dies or is adjudicated insane or mentally incompetent.’

If Biden were to withdraw less than 60 days before the election Georgia his name will remain on the ballot but no votes will be counted.

In Texas, the two party’s nominees have until the 74th day before the election to withdraw from the ballot. Some states, like South Carolina, do not allow candidates to withdraw for political reasons.

https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13556445/joe-biden-legal-counter-fight-election-dropout.html


16 posted on 06/28/2024 2:57:14 PM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Huh. Maybe a real primary season would have fixed this.

No way they can pass over Kamala anyway. Black women would freak, even though she’s not one of them.


17 posted on 06/28/2024 3:02:31 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ignoring simple truths in nature will get you thinned from the herd.

In this case, ignoring the obvious cognitive decline and nominating Biden.

I will give them that not noticing a mans decline from where Biden started is tricky. Have to sit in the front next time kids.


18 posted on 06/28/2024 3:03:24 PM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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And even if they 25 him NV is still screwed as that’s a political decision not a medical one.


19 posted on 06/28/2024 3:04:59 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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Biden and Harris fly in a plane together.


20 posted on 06/28/2024 3:17:06 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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