Democrats Learn What 'FAFO' Means As Two Red States Threaten to Remove Biden From 2024 Ballot
http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/04/11/democrats-learn-what-fafo-means-as-two-states-threaten-to-remove-biden-from-2024-ballot-n2394957
'For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' - Galatians, 6:7.
It looks like the Democrats may be entering reaping season with 2024 election ballots, and they don't like it one bit.
After activist courts tried to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot (and got smacked down 9-0 by the Supreme Court), it should hardly come as a surprise to them that some red states might try to do the same to Joe Biden.
'Sauce for the goose,' as they say ...
Ben Smith (@semaforben) ~ Red states trying to keep Biden off the ballot, per @daveweigel.
http://www.semafor.com/article/04/10/2024/could-two-red-states-keep-joe-biden-off-the-general-election-ballot
Whoopsies. Who could have seen that coming?
Dave Weigel, writing for Semafor, detailed how Alabama and Ohio could have a technical avenue to deny Biden's presence on the 2024 ballot.
Republican Secretaries of State in Ohio and Alabama have told Democrats that their presidential ticket might not qualify for their ballots, warning that the party’s nominating convention in Chicago will come too late to make their deadlines.
'There are no exceptions to Alabama code section 17-13-31(b),' Alabama Secretary of State Allen said in a statement to Semafor, citing the state’s Aug. 15 statutory deadline. 'If I do not receive a nomination from the Democratic party that complies with Alabama code section 17-13-31(b), I will not be able to certify the names of the Democratic candidates to appear on the November ballot.'
In Ohio, the Secretary of State’s office sent a letter to the state Democratic Party last week, warning that the DNC, scheduled to start on Aug. 19, would miss its Aug. 7 ballot deadline.
OK, before we begin our hearty laugh at this news, we should point out that these statutory deadlines will not likely result in Biden not appearing on the Alabama or Ohio ballots. There are legal remedies for this, but they all involve causing a lot of indigestion for Democrats. They could either move up their convention (that won't happen), the states could change their clearly written deadlines (that the DNC was aware of before scheduling their convention), or Democrats could do a 'virtual nomination' before the deadlines since there isn't likely to be a floor fight for the nomination in Chicago (the only fights in Chicago will come from Hamass supporters protesting Biden in the streets).
Still, it is very funny to watch them fussing and fuming over being hoist on their own petard by Republican secretaries of state (and frankly, violating statutory deadlines -- which were VERY public -- is more reasonable justification for ballot removal than any of the 'insurrection' nonsense the Democrats tried in Colorado and Maine).
It's all almost certainly going to end up being much ado about nothing, but in the meantime, we will go ahead and have that laugh, thank you very much.
Well ... speaking of funny ... and that 9-0 beatdown delivered by THE Supreme Court ...
Savannah (@BasedSavannah) ~ {Replying to @semaforben and @daveweigel} Where would this anti-American insane idea come from? Oh wait ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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