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What?
As far as I know all those states would have just listed "Democratic Party"...
Like, that's how the electoral college works. The party with the most votes gets to appoint electors and then they cast the vote for a person.
The name being on the ballot or just the party doesn't matter. The DNC lied that it would matter to stop people from fighting Kamala's anointment.
Same as they lied about "keys to the war cheat" that was the victory fund that the candidate and the DNC have control over, both have unrestricted access to the funds and there's basically no accountability with it.
I stopped reading here.
We can't really continue until you recognize the above. Then we can build off that if you still have questions.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/johnson-replacing-biden-ticket-wrong-unlawful/story?id=112129063
https://www.yahoo.com/news/replace-biden-some-republicans-say-thats-illegal-and-plan-to-file-lawsuits-to-stop-it-195047059.html?guccounter=1
That's just a few articles after a very brief search. What do you think Republicans were freaking out about when Colorado tried to do the same thing to Trump because he really legally shouldn't have been allowed to be on the ballot because of his involvement with jan 6th?
I get how the electoral college works, but the states decide how their elections are run and if the state chose to remove her then it's not clear if there would have been a Democrat on their ballot at all. It's not a federal thing. it's 100x harder to get people to know to write in Kamala and to actually do it, than to just have an easy circle there for them to fill with her name in it so whether the legal challenges would have been successful or not, it's not the best gamble to try to push it when we know how stacked against "us" the courts are.
None of this is to really defend the DNC, I fucking hate them and hope the party burns so we can rebuild something where the people actually give a shit about us. I just don't think in the timeframe we had there was any reality where we could have taken the time for a primary nor did there seem to be any contenders that wanted to cause a disruption that close to the election.
Ok...
But that's Republicans claiming shit, I don't know why you'd listen to them...
Do you listen to them often, or only when it supports your position?
Here's a better source than Mike Johnson:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/jul/22/is-replacing-biden-on-the-ticket-unlawful-as-speak/
It explains why every excuse about keeping the Dem candidate off the general ballot was bullshit.