Candidates can leave off a ticket as long as it's before the nomination occurs and the official balloting deadlines. Didn't RFK Jr end his own ticket? Primary voters also voted for Biden knowing Harris was his VP, hardly this "betrayal", if Biden was unable to serve out his term guess who would take his place? Finally, primary votes are …
Candidates can leave off a ticket as long as it's before the nomination occurs and the official balloting deadlines. Didn't RFK Jr end his own ticket? Primary voters also voted for Biden knowing Harris was his VP, hardly this "betrayal", if Biden was unable to serve out his term guess who would take his place? Finally, primary votes are sort of Electoral College like- they vote for delegates, who then vote for the candidate. The elected delegates, I believe almost unanimously, if not unanimously voted for Harris after Biden backed out. Nothing that happened was illegitimate or "underhanded" by party rules, even if is pretty unprecedented. And given a majority of Democratic voters polled for the past year or so were indicating they wanted a different candidate other than Biden, you can argue this was more democratic to respond to that consistently expressed wish.
Again, you should listen to the podcast. Not sure I completely agree that primary voting should be eliminated but he's not wrong on a lot of counts, including that of candidate quality and the problems of letting the base of each party drive the process.
Candidates can leave off a ticket as long as it's before the nomination occurs and the official balloting deadlines. Didn't RFK Jr end his own ticket? Primary voters also voted for Biden knowing Harris was his VP, hardly this "betrayal", if Biden was unable to serve out his term guess who would take his place? Finally, primary votes are sort of Electoral College like- they vote for delegates, who then vote for the candidate. The elected delegates, I believe almost unanimously, if not unanimously voted for Harris after Biden backed out. Nothing that happened was illegitimate or "underhanded" by party rules, even if is pretty unprecedented. And given a majority of Democratic voters polled for the past year or so were indicating they wanted a different candidate other than Biden, you can argue this was more democratic to respond to that consistently expressed wish.
Again, you should listen to the podcast. Not sure I completely agree that primary voting should be eliminated but he's not wrong on a lot of counts, including that of candidate quality and the problems of letting the base of each party drive the process.