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The rules allow the DNC to have an open convention. They just haven’t had one for more than half a century. the interesting thing is apparently if they do that
by nailer 2y ago
The rules allow the DNC to have an open convention. They just haven’t had one for more than half a century. the interesting thing is apparently if they do that its available to all candidates. So it’s possible that somebody that is well liked by the public, but not by the DNC becomes the leader ie Bernie sanders.
The tough thing though is that money donated to Biden doesn’t transfer to other candidates.
The daily wire did an Extensive breakdown of each scenario a few days ago:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vmeGPmDP0nopAlOwDZIV6 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vmeGPmDP0nopAlOwDZIV6
This particular scenario is covered at 0:30
- echelon 2y ago> money donated to Biden doesn’t transfer to other candidates. That's wild and should be fixed.
- caminante 2y agoKamala can access the funds now. The challenge is transferring to someone not named Kamala. [0] You need some campaign finance oversight with accounts, etc., and refunding and transferring to a "new" candidate would take time and jeopardize tying up ~$100 million in funds. [0] https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-harris-2024-campaign-money-what-could-happen/507-561fa64c-d806-42ec-b99b-b4b30fee523d# https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-harris-...
- ngetchell 2y agoThat is because nobody donates to the party anymore. They donate to the candidate. The idea that the DNC has any power to steer the party is a joke. That is a mental model that is at least 20 years dead.
- moralestapia 2y agoYup, this is exactly why I wrote "to their detriment". Kamala is not a strong candidate, let's see what happens.
- kristjansson 2y agoThat's the way it should be? Donations to a candidate's reelection committee are for the benefit of that candidate and severely limited by law ($3300 per donor per candidate per election). Treating inter-committee transfers as something other than donations would allow trivial circumvention of the 'per candidate' restriction - just run a bunch of nobodies, fill their coffers, and then have them drop and transfer to a single candidate I'll admit this is a bit silly in light of PAC/SuperPAC spending now, but we did have election spending rules at one point and this was one of them.
- caminante 2y agoAdd to your comment, I believe that Kamala can access the campaign funds, which favors her.
- senkora 2y agoApple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ben-shapiro-show/id1047335260?i=1000662783383 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ben-shapiro-show/i...
- kristjansson 2y agoBen Shapiro is ... perhaps not an unbiased source on this topic.
- nailer 2y agois there something specific about this extensive breakdown of the laws around a candidate stepping down that you find incorrect? Is there any news source you have found that isn’t biased in someway?
- snapcaster 2y agoI'm guessing the person actually just meant that Ben Shapiro is extremely annoying. That's why I avoided clicking at least. I've found people use negative modifiers more or less randomly to signal disgust as opposed to thinking through what each word means