This. I believe the rule is that once voting starts, the ticket is set. If Biden drops out, Kamala could continue as VP, and if she won, the House would select a new President.
I've seen many different interpretations of what might happen if one of the candidates became incapacitated or died before the election, but I've never seen the idea of having a new election mentioned seriously. That simply won't happen.
What do you mean, run out the clock? There will be a vote. The votes will be counted. There may be some court cases, but eventually a winner will be certified, and this will all happen long before January 21st.
If no winner can be declared, the House of Representatives would select the President with one vote for each state delegation, and since the Republican's control more states than Democrats, Trump would win.
If no winner can be declared, the House of Representatives would select the President with one vote for each state delegation, and since the Republican's control more states than Democrats*
*Right now, but the election on the 21st would be with the newly elected Representatives.
Be watching closely for fuckery in House elections.
You're right, except that you're oversimplifying the concept of a winner.
The President (and Vice President) won't be elected on November 3rd, he will be elected on December 14th. That's the day the electors meet in each state capital and cast their votes for President and Vice President.
The winner is the person who gets a majority of the electoral votes cast.
A majority is 270, but only if every state successfully completes its election and chooses electors who vote on December 14th. It's not necessarily 270. A state may fail to select electors in time and thereby forfeit its vote. That has happened before, by the way. New York failed to select any electors in time for the very first presidential election.
If the number of electors required to win is reduced (because a big blue state - like CA, NY, or VA - can't declare a winner), then Trump wins easily.
if Biden does drop out, what's the procedure for the election?
The DNC gets to put a new person on the ticket, since it is after the convention.
The real question comes with the electors. Technically, you don't vote for Trump; you vote for an elector who promises to vote for Trump. But now many states have "Faithless Elector" laws where they are legally required to vote as per the State election. Now, does that law state party or names on ballot?
I don't know, I haven't looked that up. But imagine California being required to vote for Biden/Harris when X/Harris is the actual candidate? If X/Harris + Biden/Harris has 270+, shit is gonna get real. If Trump has 270+, it matters only as a footnote for history.
Don't have to read any further than the line about forcing a new vote across America to know this post is total bullshit.
There is no new vote if Biden drops out.
This. I believe the rule is that once voting starts, the ticket is set. If Biden drops out, Kamala could continue as VP, and if she won, the House would select a new President.
I've seen many different interpretations of what might happen if one of the candidates became incapacitated or died before the election, but I've never seen the idea of having a new election mentioned seriously. That simply won't happen.
What do you mean, run out the clock? There will be a vote. The votes will be counted. There may be some court cases, but eventually a winner will be certified, and this will all happen long before January 21st.
If no winner can be declared, the House of Representatives would select the President with one vote for each state delegation, and since the Republican's control more states than Democrats, Trump would win.
*Right now, but the election on the 21st would be with the newly elected Representatives.
Be watching closely for fuckery in House elections.
It's extremely unlikely that Democrats would take over a majority of state House delegations.
I agree, but stay vigilant nonetheless.
You're right, except that you're oversimplifying the concept of a winner.
The President (and Vice President) won't be elected on November 3rd, he will be elected on December 14th. That's the day the electors meet in each state capital and cast their votes for President and Vice President.
The winner is the person who gets a majority of the electoral votes cast.
A majority is 270, but only if every state successfully completes its election and chooses electors who vote on December 14th. It's not necessarily 270. A state may fail to select electors in time and thereby forfeit its vote. That has happened before, by the way. New York failed to select any electors in time for the very first presidential election.
If the number of electors required to win is reduced (because a big blue state - like CA, NY, or VA - can't declare a winner), then Trump wins easily.
They chose their candidate poorly.
<picture of knight guarding the Holy Grail from Indiana Jones flick>
Haha, sleepy Joe looks like the guy after he drank from the cup.
The most unbelievable thing about this is there being no dirt on Hillary to make her the frontrunner in this story.
No reasonable prosecutor would pursue, right?
Send it to Judge Sullivan - he don’t need no stinking prosecutor to tie up the courts.
My money is on comet ping pong
The basement of the Alamo?
Oh damn. Wouldn't that be something?
Nah, the videos were made in China by China. So they purposely blackmailed him. That's why the implications are so big... the "where" is important.
Larp
If it is true I will buy you a coke and whiskey as your name befits
Looking forward to Friday :D
Bet it's got the backdrop of Epsteins pedo temple walls, on in the Whitehouse.
Quite playing with my emotions
I have asked this before, but never got an answer..
if Biden does drop out, what's the procedure for the election?
can the DNC just put in a replacement at this stage?
If she was ineligible to be POTUS she couldn't be VP (per Constitution).
Personally, I don't think an anchor baby qualifies as a natural born citizen, but we've yet to have the SCotUS decision to rule on that one.
The DNC gets to put a new person on the ticket, since it is after the convention.
The real question comes with the electors. Technically, you don't vote for Trump; you vote for an elector who promises to vote for Trump. But now many states have "Faithless Elector" laws where they are legally required to vote as per the State election. Now, does that law state party or names on ballot?
I don't know, I haven't looked that up. But imagine California being required to vote for Biden/Harris when X/Harris is the actual candidate? If X/Harris + Biden/Harris has 270+, shit is gonna get real. If Trump has 270+, it matters only as a footnote for history.
Oh this will be fun... all the way to the SCOTUS
GEOTUS says PEPSI SO HARAM
Well if it wasn't a Larp before...
Roaches are Scrambling :)
yawn