: "I'm pretty sure the nominating convention is a legal process (hence the kerfuffle with the Ohio ballot access). If Biden doesn't step aside the convention delegates can't just en masses choose someone else. IIRC part of the reasons primaries are decisive now is due to electoral law."

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I'm pretty sure the nominating convention is a legal process (hence the kerfuffle with the Ohio ballot access). If Biden doesn't step aside the convention delegates can't just en masses choose someone else. IIRC part of the reasons primaries are decisive now is due to electoral law.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
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No - you’re right that what emerges out of the nominating convention then becomes part of the US’s partially nationalised party system, but it is the party rulebook that matters for these purposes. I’ve checked!

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