John Pfaff: Heritage is apparently already planning the legal fight to keep any possible Biden replacement off the ballot in battleground states. One win in one key state court, and the election is literally over. The replacement idea was always terrible, now it's clearly fatally toxic.

Heritage is apparently already planning the legal fight to keep any possible Biden replacement off the ballot in battleground states. One win in one key state court, and the election is literally over. The replacement idea was always terrible, now it's clearly fatally toxic.

You don't see GOPers publicly pulling their hair out over Trump praising Hannibal Lecter at every speech. They just push ahead to get their guy--their policy goals--in power. Dems need the same monomaniacal focus. Is Biden old? Yes. Does it suck? Yes. Does it actually matter here? No.

And even if the Heritage lawsuits would fail--and I for one fully believe that even if the legal basis is weak to paper-thin to not-even-there, it's quite possible at least one state court would be swayed--it's just going to make this messier, make the whole media coverage "Dems in disarray."

I used to think ppl were being hyperbolic when they'd say that there seemed to be a wing of Dem party that almost had a losing fetish, but now I'm not so sure. Less snidely, it feels like there's too-big (at least on-line) a politics-as-aesthetics, not politics-as-power wing.

Too much focus on having "the right guy," or the guy who strikes them the right way, then the guy who will actually push through their policy goals. Biden has been the most progressive POTUS in a generation. He's achieved real goals, used his power to do what D's want.

Yes, he's old, he sucks on crime policy, he's too much an institutionalist to tear down SCOTUS the way firebrands like myself would like him to. But it's not about getting to 100, and right now it's about what achieves power the most in the bonkers, screwed-up voting system we have.

Its a classic example of "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" Biden and Harris do suck. But they suck less worse than a lot of the alternatives, and WAY LESS than the Naz...I mean, GOP do I don't want to vote for Biden the Genocider. But a choice betwixt him and Agolf Twitler is no choice

We don't need "the right person", we need a, any, person who has full command of their faculties at all times and can forcefully and articulately prosecute the case against Trump and promote the case for Democratic goals.

folks love to blame the candidate

it's basically fake electionlawblog.org?p=144245, electionlawblog.org?p=144258 Biden is not the de jure nominee yet so if the Democratic Party formally nominates someone else there is no problem

No, States Would Not Be Forced to Keep Biden on the Ballot If He's Not the Democratic Party's Nominee from the DNC #ELBelectionlawblog.org I have been seeing stories like this and this citing to a Heritage memo saying that in some states it would be hard for Democrats to list someone other than Biden on the ballot if Democrats nominate s...

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Conservatives Have a Devious Plan to Stop Biden From Being Replacednewrepublic.com The Heritage Foundation, a top conservative think tank, has a game plan to make sure Joe Biden remains on the ballot after that disastrous debate performancee.

Thanks

Maybe, maybe not. bsky.app/profile/elia...

i saw some folks worried that, legally, biden couldn’t be replaced on ballots - especially in crucial states like wisconsin - in time. the heritage foundation put out a memo trying to promote this fear for example. dave weigel reports here that it’s basically BS. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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