{"id":97690,"date":"2024-02-10T02:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/what-would-happen-if-joe-biden-stood-down-how-the-race-to-be-the-democratic-party-nominee-would-unfold-us-news\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T02:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T02:53:56","slug":"what-would-happen-if-joe-biden-stood-down-how-the-race-to-be-the-democratic-party-nominee-would-unfold-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/what-would-happen-if-joe-biden-stood-down-how-the-race-to-be-the-democratic-party-nominee-would-unfold-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What would happen if Joe Biden stood down? How the race to be the Democratic Party nominee would unfold | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What would happen if Joe Biden stood down? How the race to be the Democratic Party nominee would unfold | US News<\/p>\n

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Can Joe Biden be replaced as the Democrats’ presumptive candidate for November’s US presidential election?<\/p>\n

Murmurs around his ability to defeat Republican Donald Trump<\/strong>, 77, in a rematch have only grown louder after a special counsel investigation said President Biden<\/strong> portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But with America heading towards the 2024 election, and Mr Biden, 81, dominating the race for the Democratic Party nomination, what happens if he decides to withdraw – or others try to make that choice for him?<\/p>\n

Despite weak poll numbers and questions, including from some Democrats, about his age, Mr Biden has stuck to his plan to seek a second term after clearing the field of serious Democratic primary challengers when he announced last year that he was running again.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota’s Dean Phillips is the only other candidate for the nomination on the ballot, but he isn’t thought to present a serious challenge or have a high enough profile.<\/p>\n

The first few state primaries for the Democrats have already taken place – New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.<\/p>\n

President Biden won all three, meaning the delegates for those states are for now backing him – although New Hampshire’s are slightly different.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the deadline for candidates to be registered for many of the remaining 47 states has already passed.<\/p>\n

There are 12 contests (11 states and Washington DC) still with time on the clock for a potential new entrant to the Democratic race, but three of those expire on Friday – Connecticut, Indiana and Maryland.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
The candidates still in the race – and those who have dropped out<\/strong>
Analysis: Report puts Biden’s future in huge jeopardy
Supreme Court justices sceptical of Trump’s Colorado ban<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So if President Biden were to withdraw, say, this week, there would still be time for other Democrats to get their names on the ballot in some states.<\/p>\n

But even if they did, a new entrant in the race would have no way of securing a majority of the delegates at the ballot box.<\/p>\n

In that case, the nominee would likely have to be decided at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.<\/p>\n

If this were the case, we may see a broad group of presidential hopefuls such as Vice President Kamala Harris<\/strong> and California Governor Gavin Newsom jockeying to convince the more than 4,000 Democratic delegates to give them the nomination.<\/p>\n

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“If he drops out before the convention, we will have an old-fashioned convention where the delegates essentially get to make up their mind [on whom to vote for] regardless of who they were elected to represent,” said elections expert Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a member of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n

As President Biden’s second-in-command, would the nomination automatically pass to Ms Harris?<\/p>\n

Not necessarily. She would likely benefit from their joint campaign infrastructure if she ran for president in his absence, but she has her own popularity issues.<\/p>\n

With no heir-apparent to President Biden waiting in the wings, any contest to replace him would be unpredictable.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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