With the withdrawal of US President Biden (81), the selection of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate faces an urgent situation that has not been seen in recent years. There is a possibility that the confusion will continue until the party’s national convention, which opens on August 19.
The candidates of the major parties in the US presidential election are officially nominated by the delegates at the party convention after a vote by the delegates. However, in recent years, delegates are assigned in advance through primaries in each state, and the nomination at the party convention is a “ceremony”. This time, Biden won about 3,750 of the approximately 4,000 delegates.
The focus from now will be on who the delegates Biden won will vote for instead. The first important thing is the intention of Biden, who nominated Vice President Harris (59) as his “successor”. Many of the delegates are close to Biden, and there is a possibility that Harris will be essentially decided before the party convention.
However, in this case, some believe that Biden will unilaterally choose a candidate without going through the process of gaining the trust of voters through primaries, etc., which will invite backlash. Following Biden’s withdrawal, Democratic National Committee Chairman Harrison issued a statement saying the nominee would be selected through a “transparent and orderly process.” This point has been pointed out before… (The following is a paid version, 693 characters remaining) Asahi Shimbun July 22, 2024 6:29
>>1 In the first place, the person chosen at the Democratic Party convention is the official presidential candidate. The delegates were bound to vote for Biden at the August convention, but since Biden declined, that restriction has been lifted. The person chosen by the delegates at the August convention will be nominated as the presidential candidate. Until now, the vote was a formality because it was binding in the primary election, but this time it will be a vote as an indirect representative. Do you not know about indirect democracy?
If they want to win even a little, I think they have to hold a lot of debates and heat up the election campaign. Harris isn’t even popular with minorities, and the young people who supported Sanders slept and there was no excitement, so they lost, so it’s a repeat of Hillary.
Well, if Biden remained in power, there would have been no other way to do anything (there was concern that the presidency and both houses of Congress would be controlled by Republicans, resulting in a triple red situation) so there’s no choice but to change
>>34 In terms of incumbents, Johnson withdrew before the primaries were over. Then Robert Kennedy ran in the primaries and was almost sure to be nominated, but was assassinated. Humphrey, who did not run in the primaries, was chosen at the party convention. It is not the point where he has officially become the party’s candidate since the primaries have already ended. There have been changes in vice presidential candidates, with some withdrawing after their mental illnesses were revealed.
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