This was always the plan. They will contest any replacement and then only Trump will be on the ballot. AOC tried to warn you fucking people. This is why Biden needed to go over a year ago and the PARTY said “fuck you guys” until it was too hard to fucking ignore.
I mean, I can’t speak as to Mike Johnson’s personal sense of ethics, but if he’s making a legal claim, what law does it break?
This is a party-internal process.
The Democratic Party didn’t participate in the primary election, based on the expectation that Biden would run. But as I’ve pointed out here before, there’s no legal obligation for an American political party to hold a primary election or even if they do, for that primary result to bind them. We historically – and for most of American history – didn’t hold primaries at all. Parties decided that they wanted to do them and participate, but they don’t have to do so. The Libertarian Party does participate in primaries, but under their party rules, the results are merely advisory – the party can theoretically choose someone else. The Green Party policy varies based on state: in some, they participate in primaries, and in others, they caucus, have the state party internally select the party’s candidate.
For about half of the ~150 years that the Republican Party has been around, no states anywhere held primary elections. If it’s unlawful not to go to the primaries, was the Republican Party breaking the law all that time?
Uh … There were 8 candidates for President on the Democratic primary ballot in my precinct in Texas. Every state held a Democratic primary.
Florida and North Carolina did not. I’m not sure if there were any others.
https://www.wral.com/story/biden-won-t-have-challengers-in-nc-2024-primary-election-state-democratic-party-decides/21202708/
https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/primaries-and-caucuses/results/florida/democratic-presidential-primary
Both states’ Democratic parties held a primary,.with every relevant race other than president on the ballot. The original claim was that the “Democratic Party didn’t participate in the primary election.” Which is not accurate as every state’s Democratic party did hold a primary election. It wasn’t qualified to the presidential race, and even if it was a blanket statement would still be incorrect given that there were states who did have a choice for presidential nominee on their primary ballot.
The law of “Hey Mr. Supreme Court can you just say we won the election? I mean if not it’s all cool, we can wait and try to do it the other way I guess, but it’d be really cool if you just could say out loud, you know what, fuck democracy we pick the winners now. Wouldn’t that be pretty hot? If you just did that, just said it out loud?”