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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty much legally impossible for the Democrats to put anyone else on the state ballots at this point. Any attempt to swap candidates will be met with a raft of lawsuits in the state courts.

Even if Joe Biden resigns and Harris becomes POTUS 47 and she takes over the campaign apparatus and funds (legally allowed since she is named on FEC documents), she will likely face lawsuits in state courts because the names "Joe Biden/Kamala Harris" are on the ballot. States may need to change laws to add a new VP candidate to the Democratic ticket. All of it will be challenged in court and then we will have the very undemocratic process of the Supreme Court saying who gets to run for POTUS/VP.

In short, this is concerning because states do not appear to have a seamless mechanism for replacing a candidate on the ballot if someone dies after they have won the state nominating race. It is effectively an unconstitutional extra requirement to someone running for POTUS or VP. It's a much bigger problem than Joe Biden. [/quote]
Democrats are in huge trouble.[/quote]

If they are stuck with Biden, then they should demand that both Biden and Trump submit to a thorough battery of neurological and cognitive exam administered by an independent panel of neurologists and cognitive specialists and present the full detailed results side by side, along with demanding equal time from the media, for every word in print or second on air that they devote to Biden's "issues" they need to do the same with Trump.  That would be the only sensible, fair and equitable option.[/quote]

Agree with this. But what happens if independent panel determines one of them has dementia (or something else) and states don’t have mechanism for changing who is already on the ballot (as pp indicated)? [/quote]

Does that really change anything?  There's already a very real and substantial likelihood of one or both campaigns imploding.  Why delay?  Better off just putting the whole thing to rest, to give both parties a reality check and an opportunity to figure out how to move past this and recover.   In fact I'd love to see the cognitive testing for both of them televised live.  FWIW I'm not all that convinced that Trump would do well.  If anything I think Trump is better at masking his problems than Joe is and it manages to fool a lot of people but I think he has gone SERIOUSLY downhill in the last 15-20 years and that there's a high likelihood of Trump showing up with one or more troubling diagnoses after a thorough and rigorous screening.  And maybe this pops the deranged MAGA bubble and gives the GOP the reset that they really need.[/quote]

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