"Ahead of the convention rules committee meeting, Delegates Are Democracy, a group that sprang up in recent weeks to educate grassroots delegates about the nominating process, hosted an interview with Elaine Kamarck, an expert on it and a DNC member. She walked through at least one hypothetical scenario of how the party might handle Biden leaving the ticket.
The first step, Kamarck said, is to “see who wants to run” and “[determine] who would be on a roll call ballot.” She said potential candidates would likely need to gather between 300 and 600 delegate signatures to back their candidacy. A delegate could only sign one petition, and no more than 50 signatures can come from one state, Kamarck said.
“These 4,000-plus delegates would have a lot of phone calls from candidates,” Kamarck said. “Think of it as a redo of the primary system in a very, very, very compressed period of time.”
Chris Dempsey, who is leading the Delegates Are Democracy effort, expressed complaints from delegates, who said they are “not getting good, credible information about what that process might look like” from the DNC, and “that’s making delegates anxious.”
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