Democrats plan to nominate President Biden by videoconference before their August convention to meet an Aug. 7 ballot deadline in Ohio. https://t.co/pAhJUSTaKf
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 28, 2024
This kinda got overlooked in the recent spate of GOP-related criminal news (and I’m probably jinxing the idea by putting it up now). Democrats plan to nominate Biden by virtual roll call to meet Ohio ballot deadline:
President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s official convention in Chicago in August — a maneuver that will allow Biden to appear on the November ballot in Ohio.
The Democratic National Convention, where the president would otherwise be formally nominated, comes after Ohio’s ballot deadline of Aug. 7. The party’s convention is scheduled for Aug. 19-22.
Ohio lawmakers have moved the deadline in the past for candidates of both parties, although they had not done so yet for Biden this year and were called to a rare special session by Gov. Mike DeWine to address the issue.
The virtual proceedings will allow Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to get the party’s formal nod and will be very similar to the process used in 2020, when the convention went virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Chicago, Democrats will still hold a state-by-state roll call that is a fixture of nominating conventions, according to a Democratic National Committee official, although it would largely be ceremonial and it’s unclear how that in-person roll call would commence.
The DNC on Tuesday did not say when the virtual roll call will take place, but it is expected in the weeks after the committee’s rules and bylaws committee votes to propose changes to the roll call process. That committee vote is scheduled for June 4.
“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,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chairman, 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.”…
DNC in Chicago will lose some luster as Democrats plan to virtually nominate President Joe Biden before convention https://t.co/YAogqPMaug
— Chicago Tribune Politics (@ChiTribCloutSt) May 28, 2024
I remember the virtual roll call as being more entertaining than the usual on-site ceremonies, but the Chicago Tribune is understandably disappointed…
Less than three months before the Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago, the event is already losing a significant portion of its celebratory luster as national Democrats on Tuesday said they plan to virtually nominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before the convention to comply with ballot access laws in the crucial swing state of Ohio…
Chicago convention organizers said Biden and Harris will still attend the event to “celebrate” and accept their nominations before thousands of delegates at the United Center who will be attending their first in-person political convention in eight years.
The new virtual nomination, a remote process used to nominate Biden during the COVID-19 attendance-restricted 2020 convention, will be held after meetings of the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee to implement the change. The committee’s vote is scheduled for June 4…
As was the case when Chicago last hosted the DNC in 1996, whether to renominate a sitting president — Bill Clinton then and Joe Biden now — is not an issue for convention delegates. Biden easily won Democratic primaries across the country this year without any significant opposition.
The decision to move forward with a virtual nomination comes as Democratic convention planners had earlier indicated they wanted to import more live remote programming into the United Center event by using techniques from the 2020 convention when COVID-19 curtailed many traditional convention hall activities. That included the possibility of revisiting the 2020 roll call of the 57 states and territories casting their nominating ballots from remote locations…
[W]ith their formal nominations of Biden and Harris a fait accompli prior to the actual August convention events, DNC organizers will be looking for ways to try to energize a crowd of delegates in an in-person show of unity leading to and including Biden’s acceptance speech. Organizers also face an even greater emphasis to find more creative ways to sell the president’s campaign message before the Nov. 5 election.
“We are excited to welcome delegates and guests to Chicago where President Biden and Vice President Harris will celebrate their nominations from the United Center and address the American people using beloved elements of conventions past while building on the success of our innovative 2020 programming,” said Emily Soong, a Democratic National Convention spokesperson.In a statement, the Democratic National Committee said that “in spite of Republicans’ bad-faith efforts to stand in the way, the in-person convention in Chicago will continue to serve as an important convening event for Democrats across the country.”
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I think the chance that the RNC rather than the DNC is the insane violent convention just went up kind of a lot
— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) May 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Former President Trump to be sentenced just four days before GOP convention https://t.co/kINs80v4WS
— The Hill (@thehill) May 30, 2024
I’m seeing proposals on twitter that the con be moved forward to July 4th, for FREEDUMB, but so far it seems to be a common-clay-of-the-new-QAnon ‘idea’ — the people in charge, much less the representatives with their tickets & hotel rooms already booked, have yet to jump on the rickety bandwagon, so…
… Judge Juan Merchan said Trump’s sentencing hearing will be July 11, just before the Republican National Committee’s convention is slated to start on July 15 in Milwaukee.
Trump is expected to be named as the official 2024 GOP nominee for president at the convention…
It’s not clear how the verdict may impact Trump in the election.
He’s been ahead of President Biden in national and swing-state polls, and he’s been at work on a messaging strategy during the trial to try to make sure a guilty verdict would not hurt him politically.
Guns allowed while hard water bottles, tennis balls banned in RNC security footprint https://t.co/xj4qzwzh6Z
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) May 30, 2024
I’d be willing to place a small side bet on a last-minute ‘Convention planners announce cancellation, citing security fears from antifa & other outside agitators’… but I don’t see the True Conservatives(tm) giving up their chance to party down in company with their fellows (and well away from the potential disapproval of their hometown constituents). Also, their God Emperor will demand a full coronation televised across all channels, even if he has to phone in his portion from a cell…
Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Guns allowed while hard water bottles, tennis balls banned in RNC security footprint”:
Those looking to cross into the area immediately outside the Republican National Convention perimeter will likely have to leave behind non-plastic containers, tennis balls and other typically innocuous items.
What won’t be prohibited: Guns.
“I find that totally absurd,” said Ald. Robert Bauman, whose district includes downtown, where the convention will take place. “Literally, you can’t have tennis balls, but you can have an AR-15 assault rifle.”
That tension has Bauman pushing for changes and rethinking his sponsorship of the proposed ordinance that would prohibit dozens of items, including air rifles — but not the vast majority of actual guns — in the RNC security “footprint,” where the public and demonstrators will be able to come and go during the July 15-18 event…
The legislation would prohibit “any dangerous ordnance, weapon, or firearm that is prohibited by the laws of the state of Wisconsin under” specific statutes that reference machine guns and other weapons; short-barreled shotguns and short-barreled rifles; and silencers…
Wisconsin law prevents the city and all local governments “from prohibiting the possession or carrying of legal firearms,” City Attorney Evan Goyke told the Journal Sentinel in an email in response to questions the news organization raised about the proposed ordinance.
The security footprint is expected to extend from Cherry Street to the north to West Clybourn Street on the south and from North Water Street on the east to North 9th Street on the west.
The security footprint will surround a “hard perimeter” where credentials will be required to enter, and guns will not be allowed.
That perimeter — the exact location of which has not been released — will surround the primary convention venues of Fiserv Forum, the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena and the Baird Center.
The U.S. Secret Service, which controls the area inside the “hard perimeter” will not allow any weapons in that space except for those possessed by working law enforcement officers, according to an agency spokesperson. A list of items that are prohibited in that area will be released when it is finalized…
I have a great theme for the 2024 Republican National Convention.
"Trump: A Man With Convictions"
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) May 31, 2024
War for Ukraine Day 830: A Brief Sunday Night Update
HumboldtBlue
There ain’t enough gymnastics up in this joint.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
That balance beam routine, wow.
Geoduck
“WE WANT WHAT’S WORST FOR EVERYONE”
“WE’RE JUST PLAIN EVIL”
bjacques
The DNC to Ohio: We’re not saying we don’t trust you, but we don’t trust you.
As for the Republican national convention, gun owners will be happy to know that, while they can’t bring their weapons within the hard perimeter, they can still fire their bullets into it (though not legally).
I always thought gunhumpers would resent the hypocrisy of NRA and similar confabs not allowing open carry, but I only now that, because their public displaying of weapons is really just to intimidate normies and “those people”, leaving their weapons at home in those instances doesn’t really bother them.
Steve in the ATL
Ohio is a swing state? The Trib must not have been following the news for a few years.
WereBear
It was only, ever, about the power. Like a bully making you cry because you cross their path.
Trump was leaning on this lever while he still had money (of sorts) and influence (of a kind.) His followers are the only way he has left to IMPOSE his will upon us all, for the real crime, which is making him be accountable for his actions.
opiejeanne
I’ve been away from the computer most of the day, so I don’t know if this has already been discussed here, but Trump is probably not going to be on WA state’s ballot because convicted felons are prohibited from running.
opiejeanne
@WereBear: Trump is Mad Lord Snapcase, and if you’re a Terry Pratchett fan, you know what eventually happened to him.
WereBear
@opiejeanne: He is that to a capital T!
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Highly unlikely. States have very little wiggle room when it comes to imposing additional ballot access requirements for federal elections beyond those pertaining to the office as delineated in the Constitution.
SpaceUnit
Don’t really give a fuck about the tennis balls, but the Republican Convention should absolutely welcome guns, pies, and rubber chickens.
Hell, I might even watch.
NotMax
@SpaceUnit
Real dead chickens or go home. Also too, used diapers.
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SpaceUnit
@NotMax:
And Lawn Darts.
Lots and lots of Lawn Darts.
trnc
It’s been the law since 1865, but I don’t know if it has ever been used to block federal candidates. The state SOS thinks it will wind up in court.
NotMax
@SpaceUnit
Related: The Most Dangerous Toys of All Time.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@opiejeanne: I had to look him up because Ankh-Morpork had such a long string of … shall we say … eccentric rulers. Turns out Snapcase wasn’t the one who ended up buried in five different graves (that was Lorenzo the Kind, after Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes decided that even a king wasn’t above the law).
(I didn’t remember that Snapcase was the one who got hung up by his figgin.)
sab
In Ohio the Republicans in the state legislature really really do not want to have a vote on this. A vote to fix the problem will enrage the MAGA base, and cost them in the next primary, but a vote against a fix will enrage the independents in November.
OzarkHillbilly
Magnet fishing, I might have to give that a try. If I do it up at Forest Park in STL I’m sure to find plenty of murder weapons.
SpaceUnit
@NotMax:
I grew up in the age of Lawn Darts. Inevitably some drunk at a backyard cookout would throw one straight up in the air and everyone would have to scatter. JFC.
VFX Lurker
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
@opiejeanne
Tangentially related: I recently borrowed The Science of Discworld from my library. I knew nothing about the book, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn it’s a “bonus” Discworld story starring the wizards of Unseen University. These chapters alternate with chapters on hard science.
I recently finished all the Discworld novels, so I was happy to find more Discworld stories written by Pratchett. Currently listening to the second book in the series, called The Globe.
Lacuna Synecdoche
AP via Anne Laurie @ Top:
The one word every Democratic operative, spokesperson, commenter, reporter, etc. should be using to describe Ohio Republican legislators with regard to this nonsense is: PETTY.
WereBear
@SpaceUnit: My mother had similar reminiscences, like how we would all be in the car without seat belts, fireworks in rural areas, etc.
Martin
Looks like we’re going to have our 3rd Jewish head of state – Claudia Sheinbaum. Very different domestic problem from the other two heads of state, but she sounds like a winner.
eclare
@WereBear:
Besides no seat belts, my dad smoked like a chimney. Anytime we went anywhere, when the doors opened it was like Cheech and Chong’s van. But not the good stuff.
NotMax
@VFX Lurker
Going Postal, Hogfather, The Colour of Magic and Troll Bridge pretty faithful movie/video adaptations of Discworld. Definitely avoid The Watch.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: That list is missing the 3/4 ton 4wd pick up.
SpaceUnit
@WereBear:
Yeah. Crazy to think that it’s the era all the MAGA types pine for.
ETA: Okay, they’re probably focused on an earlier era, but still. Lawn Darts were mid 70’s to mid 80’s.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@SpaceUnit:
I’ve said it before, I’ve said it repeatedly, and I’m sure I’ll have cause to say it again: Republican debates should consist of giving each candidate a gun, and telling them the last one standing wins.
OzarkHillbilly
More good cancer news:
The caveat (there’s always a caveat):
Still, it’s a good development which may well lead to more.
VFX Lurker
@NotMax: Good list! I’d like to add The Amazing Maurice (2022) to the list of quality Discworld adaptations. I wish it had a Blu-ray release here in the States.
I’m bummed about The Watch. It is the only Discworld live-action adaptation I have not yet seen, because a co-worker and Neil Gaiman separately expressed their disappointment in it.
Gloria DryGarden
@Martin: me fascinaba que Ambos candidatos para president eran mujeres. Good luck, I hope she’s great. I did not see when the election was. I’m excited there’s a nearby country with a woman president. I did hear interviews of Mexican men about the upcoming election. Some of the men were unhappy about it being female candidates. The translator kind of softened the men’s messages, replaced the word vergüenza with something more diplomatic. I hope men don’t give her trouble for being a woman; she’s got a country to run.
(My tablet keyboard hasn’t been set for extra languages, it’s hard to fight the autocorrect.)
SpaceUnit
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
Ha. I like your style.
But Republicans are essentially chickenshit. They’re all just a bunch of cowards who like to talk tough. I If ever ever such an event were proposed they’d all have prior commitments.
OzarkHillbilly
@Lacuna Synecdoche: And if nobody is left standing, America wins.
Baud
@Martin:
Do we still have a chance to beat Canada to the first female leader?
Anne Laurie
Counter-argument: The Watch miniseries is… from down a very different multiverse trouser-leg than Sir Pratchett’s version. But as long as you assume it’s an alternate Discworld universe, the actors are excellent & the story is coherent.
Not sure I’d give it to a Discworld newbie, but Spousal Unit & I both enjoyed it very much!
Princess
@Baud: Canada already (briefly) had a female prime minister. And if you’re talking head of state rather than head of government, well, Queen Elizabeth. And Victoria for that matter.
Matt McIrvin
@WereBear: LGM just highlighted some wingnut’s tweet about how the feminization of society by women “rebelling against the created order” was the reason his son had to use a booster seat in the car. Real normal person stuff there.
Baud
@Princess:
Well, that’s too bad.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Inertia is a fundamental physical property. Figures the feminists would hate it.
Princess
Can we pause for a minute and discuss what a hack newspaper the Chicago Tribune is? Oh Noes! How we live without the uncertainty of the roll call nomination on the floor for a candidate who crushed all his opponents in the primary!! The Trib is really pissed because they won’t be able to run all the “will Biden pull out because of old?” Stories they were planning on. There goes the whole “replace him at the convention” storyline.
In fact, it wouldn’t shock me if that, as much as Ohio, wasn’t part of the reason they’re pushing the nomination process forward.
Baud
@Princess:
Good point. The GOP asshats in Ohio may be doing us a favor while making themselves look worse than Alabama.
p.a.
This Rethug convention promises to be an All-Pat-Buchanan-All-The-Time freakshow. Maybe they all have been for a while; I haven’t paid attention to either Partys’ for years. Real WTF for the normies watching. If any watch.
eclare
@p.a.:
I won’t be watching the RNC. When I watched in 2016 all it was was violent, racist, and misogynistic rants. It was hard to watch. I’ll depend on Colbert to cover it with a dose of humor and “can you believe this shit?”
Rusty
Let them have a convention with an AR-15 toting whack-job ranting about not only banning abortion nationally but banning contraception and jailing the gays. Let the country get a full dose of the crazy. I’m sure that will go over swimmingly with the independents.
sdhays
@Matt McIrvin: And not just any wingnut, apparently. He’s supposedly going to be the next head of the Southern Baptist Conference.
If so society wasn’t so “feminized”, I expect this specimen would have Darwin Awarded himself long ago.
Another Scott
DeWine signed Biden ballot access bill on Sunday.
Of course, the Ohio GQP also passed a bill about campaign contributions (by green card holders?):
The GQP rarely does anything without also throwing rocks.
Grr…,
Scott.
Ken
What a brilliant plan to give the remaining semi-sane Republican delegates dyspepsia with the question “what if we nominate him and he’s sent to jail?”
Baud
@Another Scott:
Ah, thanks.
Ramalama
@eclare: Smoking on planes, trains, automobiles with their nasty metal ashtrays in the doors.
Ramalama
@Princess: The convention live in Chicago should now pivot to something super feel-good like a music festival. Festivus in the summertime. Because the official acts will play out on video earlier. OK fine, those Democratic videos for 2020 were fun. Of course, most of us were stuck indoors.
The Chicago Trib could have that kind of coverage. Joan Baez singing with Taylor Swift. The Carolina Chocolate Drops playing with will.i.am.
Ohio Mom
The Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse would have loved to depress Democratic turnout by keeping Biden off the ballot. It would have meant many fewer votes for Sherrod Brown and also, assuming the issue makes it onto the ballot, our second attempt at fair redistricting.
It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before because the Ohio deadline for presidential candidates being added to the ballot is rather early, and in some years, occurs before the national conventions which make the official nominations. Seems like it would be a simple enough fix for the state legislature and governor to move the deadline. But then they would have missed this spring’s opportunity to be bullies.
O. Felix Culpa
@Ohio Mom:
The Ohio GOP being assholes and bullies was sufficient reason for their behavior, but your point imputes some plausible strategy to their previous (in)action. Glad it’s not working out for them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Lost that chance years ago, Baud.
Ken
@Ramalama: Elevators used to have ashtrays too. I think of it as a sign of how addictive tobacco is, that people couldn’t stop for a two-minute elevator ride. For that matter, planes still have to remind passengers that there’s no smoking and “tampering with or disabling lavatory smoke detectors” is a no-no.
VFX Lurker
Thanks for posting this…I may give the series a shot.
The Lodger
They can call Trump the Federally Electable Law and Order Nominee!