Ohio prepares to leave Biden and Harris off presidential ballot as Democrats search for answers - Washington Examiner
By: Emily Hallas (Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress the President and the Federal Government)
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ByEmily Hallas May 22, 2024 5:18 pm .
President Joe Biden is set to not appear on Ohio's presidential ballot in November, the state's secretary of state confirmed.
In a letter to Ohio Democratic Chairwoman Liz Walters on Tuesday, Secretary of State Frank LaRose said, "Today, the Speaker of the Ohio House told members of the media there would not be a legislative solution," adding he was "duty bound to instruct boards of elections to begin preparing ballots that do not include the Democratic Party's nominees for president and vice President of the United States."
Now that a legislatice fix is "taken off the table," Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote the Ohio Democratic Party today to reiterate that Biden's name won't appear on the ballot in November unless the Democratic National Committee takes action. pic.twitter.com/NhHYK3rt3w
— Andrew Tobias (@AndrewJTobias) May 21, 2024
The Democratic National Convention will not confirm Biden as the nominee until Aug. 19, conflicting with an Ohio law requiring presidential candidates to certify their nomination to the secretary of state's office 90 days before the election.
The legislature is adjourned in the swing state, making it impossible to change the law by the 90-day deadline on Aug. 7.
Ohio's Senate leaders passed a bill that addressed the problem by allowing certification 74 days before the election, but the House adjourned before taking up any version of the bill.
The Democratic Party could still resolve the conflict by rescheduling its convention or by filing a lawsuit arguing that an arbitrary and long deadline barring Biden violates the First and Fourteenth amendments.
Biden lost Ohio to Trump by 8% in 2020. He trails the former president by nearly 10% ahead of the 2024 election.
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How stupid can your campaign and party be? THIS stupid
Democrats don't think laws apply to them; or worse still that they are the law.
Bring on the idiots claiming this is "election interference".
With all the appeals Biden could make , ala Trump, the issue would never be decided before the election. Once Biden wins, likely without the help of Ohio, it will all be moot.
A nothingburger.
Still assuming Brandon is going to win?
Funny how Democrats think laws apply to everyone but them.
What appeals? They have a legal suspense to meet. They've already stated they refuse to make them.
Actions, or lack there of, have consequences. Especially for simple shit like making an announcement.
Only leftist fools would count on winning Ohio.
We shall see what kind of appeals begin on June 3rd, That is when a real trial begins.
Absolutely no one is above the law. Or, maybe, almost no one. Or, maybe, the law only applies to whoever Democrat prosecutors want to indict. Or, maybe, the law doesn't really matter after all.
Just remember that Joe Biden screwed around with the primary calendar. Biden had to mount a write-in campaign in New Hampshire because of his own screw-up. Pushing the convention closer to election day was supposed to give Biden a glitz and glamor bump closer to the election, too. Biden even botches up his own reelection.
Could George McGovern beat Joe Biden? Yeah, maybe Orange Man Bad but Joe Biden is like a self-basting turkey; Biden forks himself.
incredible incompetence.
What else has Joe forgotten to do?
You know that is a VERY LONG list.
So democrats try to remove trump from ballots and get slapped around by the courts, and now Biden may be off a states ballot through complete incompetence from democrats? Karma is a bitch.
It was probably left to a DEI hire to do ……. DOH!