All you need to know about the calls for Biden to step down: amid all the claims that he isn't the best to win against Trump there's no mention of a willing alternative who is better. π€
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I have repeatedly asked the anti-Biden folks here on CoSo who they support instead?
>crickets<
Why is that?
@LnzyHou @Bix Technically they could convene the Democratic National Convention and put it before the delegates to change nominees. There'd have to be a series of motions to change the rules to allow the replacement and then to effect the replacement. So those saying Biden can't be replaced legally are wrong. It's possible but difficult and very unlikely.
Who to replace him with hasn't been thought through. And I don't think it matters. The complainants may be in it just for campaign funds
@Bix @TheresaVermont @LnzyHou Here's where we wade into becoming the enemy we hoped to defeat. Trump has shown that most legal barriers are only prohibitive so long as you're willing to consent to being restricted by them. By the time most challenges would mature any potential replacement could already be president and just point to the Constitution and ask where it says the courts are allowed to remove them.
So again, technically possible but difficult and highly unlikely.
@TheresaVermont @Fellixe @LnzyHou
Why I don't give a fig that Biden is 81 years old:
@LnzyHou @Bix At the rate of modern campaign spending that's inconvenient but not prohibitive. Current campaign cash on hand won't get to November. New fundraising is already required. You'd just put the new money where the new nominee can access it. Create a body for it. Obama won two terms funded mostly outside the two party system using OFA. The party has some legal functions but is largely obsolete after those are executed.
@Fellixe @LnzyHou @Bix Thereβs a lot to that βtechnicallyβ at the convention. FEC regulations, DNC delegate rules, campaign funds (donations) transitions, campaign offices and staffers, responding to threatened lawsuits from Heritage Foundation.