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Can Republicans challenge the Democratic Party swap of Harris for Biden at the top of their ticket at the state level?
It’s an intriguing question. The Heritage Foundation’s legal brains asked it in a memo before Biden’s disastrous debate and found some grounds for the belief that some state ballots wouldn’t allow any change at the top.
SomestateslikeSouthCarolinaandWisconsin“don’tallowcandidatestoberemovedforpoliticalreasons,orreasonsotherthandeath.”ThememoarguesthatifBidenweretodropout,“Thereisthepotentialforpre-electionlitigationinsomestatesthatwouldmaketheprocess[ofdroppingBiden]difficultandperhapsunsuccessful.”
However,legalexpertspointoutthatthosestatelawsrefertoacandidatewhohadalreadybeenconfirmedbythepartyasthenominee.Bidenmayhavewrappedupthedelegatesbutwithnoformalvote,technically,theDemocratshadnonominee.
ElectionlawprofessorRichHasenwritesthat“JoeBidenisnottheparty’snomineenow,andstatesgenerallypointtothemajorparty’snomineeastheonewhosenameisontheballot.”
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