Has this ever happened before?

So this is actually allowed by law? To place someone as the official nominee without having different possible nominees and having people vote like they do for the primaries?

Of course it was easy to just put her in Biden's place as she was the VP for four years but that isn't right and is not democratic. Let the people of this country elect her as the official nominee.

So this is actually allowed by law? To place someone as the official nominee without having different possible nominees and having people vote like they do for the primaries? @lovebuglena When the party chose Biden, the delegates assigned the Biden votes agreed on Harris, and therefore it was legal even if it was not democratic. Essentially, and I realize it can be confusing, in elections we are not really voting for candidates. We are voting for delegates. And delegates, like voters, can ultimately vote any way they want to. That was part of the kerfuffle of J6. The delegates still voted according to their assigned votes, but Pence could have refused to certify the delegate votes sending us on a different path, OR the delegates could have simply voted another way.

@lovebuglena They do. They have to pass the citizinship test and be considered a U.S. citizian for seven years and be over the age of 35.

@kaylachan I did not know this.

I doubt they will ever allow people not born in the US to run for president. But never know.

@lovebuglena Yeah, that's how a VP is chosen. I just don't know how Haris became the official nomnie for the democtratic party. I know she was supposedly supposed to be a filler until they could do something because Joe waited so long to drop out of the race. I want to say he dropped out after the primaries. Or literally right before so, Haris kinda fell into it.

@kaylachan They could've made her one of the nominees and had gotten a few more potential candidates and let the people vote. But I guess they decided they didn't have enough time to do all this so just chose to make her the official nominee during the DNC. Doesn't make it right though.

I read somewhere that before (forget how long ago) the VP was also voted for by the people. But now the presidential nominee just picks the person. What’s better? I guess if the nominee chooses their running mate they work with who they want to. But if the people vote then they can be stuck with someone they don’t want to work with.

But the person has to run for president and be voted for by the people in the primaries to become the nominee. This is not the case for Harris.

@lovebuglena She obviously is running for president as we speak.

@NJChicaa now yes. But when people announced they were running for president before the primaries she wasn’t running, Biden was. And she was just put in his place when he said he is no longer running.

I do not affiliate myself with any political party but I do hope that Republicans win.

Forgetting about who the actual candidates are would you want to vote for someone that was never selected by the people in the first place?

@lovebuglena It doesn't bother me..