2024 Election - Thread #1

[Labster]

If he does drop out of the race for one reason or another, are the DNC delegates expected to vote for whoever got the second-largest number of ballots in each state's primaries? Or do you go straight to the backroom horse-trading that typifies practically every Canadian party convention before the first ballot?

Neither.  The party has coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris, for a few reasons:

• She's already vetted for competence and closet skeletons, having run for VP before and currently
  
• If she moves up, she can continue to use the campaign cash that Biden raised for their collective campaign
  
• There were zero viable runners-up, in what was supposed to be a coronation (just like the Republicans oddly)
  
• It's really late, only 4 months to the election, and it's impossible to introduced a new candidate in so little time (ignore rest of world's elections)
  

Now I do think that this sort of horse trading could actually occur over the vice president slot, unless Kamala has someone that she really, really wants.  I think that's far from decided.  I mean, besides Joe Biden not yet being convinced that he needs to quit.