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Biden off ohio General election ballot and it's the Dems fault!

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NEW: Biden Is Off the Ohio General Election Ballot After State Legislature Tells Him to Pound Sand

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NEW: Biden Is Off the Ohio General Election Ballot After State Legislature Tells Him to Pound Sand​

By Bonchie | 2:25 PM on May 22, 2024

As things stand, Joe Biden will not be on Ohio's general election ballot in November, setting up potentially disastrous down-ballot consequences for Democrats.


For months, the president and his party have been pushing the legislature to pass a "fix" that would allow him to make the state deadline in early August. On Wednesday, the Republican-led legislature justifiably told him to pound sand.



The fix won’t happen through the legislature, said Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens, R-Kitts Hill, and Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, during separate gaggles Tuesday morning.
“There’s just not the will to do that from the legislature,” Stephens said.
Russo said she was skeptical the fix was ever going to happen in the legislature.
“We’ve seen the dysfunction here in this place,” she said. “And I think we’ve seen that folks have not been able to put aside partisanship and hyper-partisanship and infighting. … I think at this point, you’re probably going to see either, you know, some sort of inner party effects or perhaps court action.”
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At issue is the fact that the Democrat National Committee (DNC) flouted known state law in Ohio and scheduled the close of its nominating convention on August 22nd. The deadline to file as a candidate for the general election ballot is August 7th. That means Biden will not technically be the nominee in time to qualify.


While Biden was never going to be competitive in Ohio, his absence could depress turnout, leading to losses in down-ballot races for his party. Notably, all of this is happening with the backdrop of multiple Democrat-led states attempting to forcibly remove Donald Trump from the ballot. Whether this is meant to be payback or not, it's certainly understandable that Republicans wouldn't want to stick their neck out for Biden.

Naturally, Ohio's moderate Republican governor still wants to see a "fix" happen.

However, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said the legislature needs to make the fix.
“I have every confidence that it’s going to get done,” he said Tuesday. “No one should worry, they’re going to be able to vote for the president or the former president, whoever they want to vote for. You know, this is not going to be a situation where the president’s name is not on the ballot. So it’s either going to be done by the court, or it’s going to be done by the legislature.”
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The legislature doesn't need to do a thing. No one made the DNC arrogantly schedule its convention in conflict with Ohio's ballot deadline. If they are so worried about it, they can skip the formalities and nominate Biden earlier. To change state law to appease a political candidate would be completely out of bounds. As for a court doing it, I'm not sure how a court could justify simply ignoring the written law of the state, though it wouldn't surprise me.


DeWine should grow a backbone and stop abiding by double standards. Democrats tried (and so far have failed) to throw Trump off the ballot in Colorado and Maine. Republicans should not rush to save them in Ohio. Let them learn the hard way.
 
rockota said:
there is a good answer... it's already spelled out in the constitution.
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ahh, I misunderstood your comment intent, I thought you were promoting the idea of nationalizing elections. Good, then we're on the same page.
 
ApeEater said:
ahh, I misunderstood your comment intent, I thought you were promoting the idea of nationalizing elections. Good, then we're on the same page.
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well... your reading comprehension has been challenged today. :flipoff2:

I'm just saying someone will call for it....
 
Gov. Mike DeWine has taken the rare step of calling a special legislative session, in effect summoning the General Assembly to make sure that President Joe Biden qualifies for the ballot this November.

DeWine announced in a Thursday evening press conference that he would be calling the special session for Tuesday May 28 . It marked the first time a governor has called a special session for 20 years. Otherwise, the legislature wasn’t scheduled to meet again until June 12.
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Gov. Mike DeWine calls special legislative session to address Biden ballot issue

DeWine announced he would be calling the special session for May 28 in a Thursday evening press conference.
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Biden to Be 'Virtually' Nominated in Ohio: Will It Make a Difference?

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So does this mean there will be no reason for their convention ?

Biden to Be 'Virtually' Nominated in Ohio: Will It Make a Difference?​


By Ward Clark | 2:55 PM on May 29, 2024
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The Democrats just keep stepping on their you-know-whats. In their latest peccadillo, they have scheduled their national convention after the candidate filing deadline for the state of Ohio, and now they are having to come up with a workaround, in which they will nominate befuddled old Joe Biden virtually.

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The Democratic National Committee announced on Tuesday that it will nominate President Joe Biden through a “virtual roll call” vote ahead of the August convention to ensure he appears on the Ohio ballot this November.
Ohio’s ballot deadline is Aug. 7, two weeks before the DNC planned to hold its official presidential nomination at an in-person convention in Chicago. Frank LaRose, the Republican secretary of state, warned last week that Biden would not be on the state’s ballot unless the state lawmakers moved the ballot access deadline to after the Democratic convention. Days later, the DNC announced it would expedite the nominating process, though no date has yet been announced for the virtual roll call.
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The DNC Chair, when commenting on this workaround, made one of the most staggeringly ironic statements of this election cycle:

“Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree. But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement. “Through a virtual roll call, we will ensure that Republicans can’t chip away at our democracy through incompetence or partisan tricks and that Ohioans can exercise their right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice.”
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Did you get that? "...ensure that Republicans can't chip away at our democracy"?

Like Democrats have when suing to have Donald Trump removed from ballots in blue states like Colorado and California?

Like Democrats have when dragging a former President of the United States into courtrooms on what are sadly and obviously trumped-up (hah) charges?

Look, I'm no more fond of a tu quoque argument than anyone who abhors a logical fallacy, but I don't think this is a hill the Democrats should choose to die on. Not with how their candidate is looking these days, and certainly not given their increasingly desperate attempts to halt the return of Trump in "Trump II - This Time It's Personal."

It's impossible to conclude anything from this being necessary other than the fact that the DNC has, as we used to say in the Army, engaged in a certain act with a certain animal of the canine variety. We are looking not only at a befuddled president, not only at a vice president who loses debates with potted plants, not only an administration full of DEI hires who seem to have trouble distinguishing the difference between face and fundament on a wide variety of issues but also an incompetent Democratic National Committee who seem to be incapable of reading a calendar.

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What's amazing about all this isn't Biden's crashing poll numbers; what is amazing is that those numbers have not yet dropped into single digits.

Ohio isn't the only state where the Democrats faced problems, although those issues are already resolved.

The state of Washington and Alabama also have early certification deadlines that fall before the DNC. But Democrats in the former resolved the issue by offering a provisional certification of Biden’s nomination. Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation earlier this spring that deferred the state’s certification deadline until after the DNC.
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