Writer Dan Conley here predicts that the Democratic presidential primaries in 2020 will not settle who the presidential nominee will be, and that the delegates to the national convention will make the actual choice. He points out that Democratic national rules require proportional selection of delegates in all Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses. He also points out that California will hold its primary in 2020 in March, so that many Democrats (under the proportional system) will end up with a fairly substantial number of delegates from California, encouraging them to keep campaigning in the primaries of April, May, and June. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
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That is the way it used to be. This might just increase ratings.
That’s good. A frustrated minority may walk out and form a new party. That’s the way it used to happen.
Will a 6.66 percent hack in the CA primary get nominated as Prez ???
A frustrated minority might walk out, and form a new party, but could they get their candidate on the ballot, given the likely timing of such a move? I think it would be more likely that they would attach themselves to one of the existing smaller parties (Greens, perhaps).
Why not startup a new party, look at 2016. Disgruntled Republicans HAD TO beat the bushes for an ‘approved’ alternate to Trump. McMullin didn’t do to badly starting so much after the Republican Convention was over. There are a few one-state parties that might consider backing a disgruntled far-left(?) Democratic candidate.