Subj : Re: Told ya so!
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 09:20:00

>  GD> Biden dropped out of the race.
>  GD> There is no way in H - E - double hockey sticks, that she will be beat
>  GD> Trump.

>Does Kamala just inherit the campaign then? Won't the Democrats hold some sort
>of fake primary to make their sheep feel like there's a democracy?

No she doesn't necessarily.  I have heard said that only she can legally
inherit Joe's campaign funds because she was on the ticket with him, but I
don't know if that is true.

They will hold an "open convention," like they did in 1968.  That year, LBJ
dropped his re-election campain after winning the New Hampshire primary.
He was shown in polls to be trailing in other states.  Opposition to the
Vietnam war was dragging him down.

The delegates LBJ had up to that point went to his VP.  RFK was running second
in delegate count when he was assassinated a little over two months before
the convention.  Going into the convention, his delegates remained
"unclaimed."

So they went into their August convention in Chicago without a clear-cut
nominee.  The political machine of Chicago's mayor Daley ran the
convention.  There were riots outside (Vietnam and race-related -- MLK had
also been assassinated earlier that year) as well as heated moments inside as
some states had competing slates of delegates that wanted to be seated as
the official state delegations.

LBJ's VP, Hubert Humphrey, would ultimately be nominated.

It will be interesting to see if any states this time around have competing
slates.  Since Biden stayed in until after the primaries were over, and he
won, I doubt there will be but you never know.

If Kamala is named, that will be interesting.  Biden won the majority of
delegates with her tagged on as VP but, in 2020, Kamala did not win *any*
delegates when running on her own.  In contrast, Tulsi Gabbard did win some
delegates, and she also had no chance of being nominated in 2020.


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