How does this work? The delegates vote until they agree on someone?
Anyone other than Kamala would have to begin fundraising upon nomination. Funds donated to the Biden campaign can only be transferred to her. We’d either be looking at Harris or an independently wealthy replacement.
Out of curiousity, what would happen to the funds if we did have a wealthy replacement?
Would the donors be refunded a percentage of the money they donated to the Biden campaign? I doubt that money would be locked up and become unusable.
They eventually get repayed to the investors. They won’t be immediately available to any candidate other than Harris.
That’s how it always works. Those delegates were chosen by the campaign that won the right to name them in the Primary, so over 99% of them were chosen by the Biden campaign, and are pledged to vote for him on the first ballot if he is still in the race by the time the roll call vote happens (which will take place before the actual convention this year.)
If he backs out, they are free from their pledge. But who thinks that a bunch of hand-picked Biden delegates will vote for anyone other than who he endorses? And who thinks he will endorse anyone other than his own hand-picked understudy?
They are floating this “blitz primary” idea simply as away to make the process sound more democratic than it really is. It’s not really a “primary” at all. The only voters needing to be “influenced” are the delegates. And in the unlikely event the delegates don’t fall in line on the first vote, DNC Superdelegates can vote starting with the second vote and make sure the proper candidate wins.
