How MAGA Republicans plan to make it 'extraordinarily difficult' for anyone but Biden to be Dem nominee

03 July 2024

Following President Joe Biden's widely criticized performance in his first 2024 presidential debate with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, there have been some heated debates among Democrats on whether or not Biden should be the nominee.

Some Democrats are calling for Biden to withdrawn from the race, arguing that his campaign has suffered irreparable damage. But other Democrats maintain that Biden should stay in the race, as nominating someone else would be risky.

Never Trump conservatives who want Trump to lose are having the same debate. Former GOP strategist Tim Miller and journalist Charlie Sykes have said that Biden is seriously damaged as a candidate following that debate; Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project, on the other hand, believe that Biden can bounce back from a terrible debate performance if he gets out the message that a Trump victory would be disastrous for the United States.

Meanwhile, Trump's supporters at the Heritage Foundation, according to NOTUS, are hoping that Biden will stay in the race — and are vowing to make things "extraordinarily difficult" for Democrats if they try to nominate someone else.

NOTUS reporters Ben T.N. Mause and Reese Gorman, in an article published on July 3, explain, "While Biden's campaign insists he has no plans to drop out, Republicans are gearing up for any and all possibilities. They've been preparing for this moment for quite some time. About four months ago, after special counsel Robert Hur's report raised more concerns about Biden's health, staffers at Heritage's Oversight Project started researching laws in states across the country for replacing a nominee."

Mause and Gorman add, "They laid out just how difficult it would be for Democrats to replace Biden in key swing states in a memo that was compiled in early April and released last week ahead of the debate."

According to Mause and Gorman, the Heritage Foundation is "pledging litigation to make replacing Biden close to impossible."

Zack Smith, a senior legal fellow at Heritage, told NOTUS, "The problem that any potential replacement for Joe Biden would likely run into is that in many states, including in several key states, the deadline for getting on the ballot has already passed. Or in many states, the process for replacing a candidate currently on the ballot just isn’t clearly defined because it happens so rarely."

Read NOTUS' full report at this link.

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