On June 20, the Democratic National Committee formally decided to choose its presidential and vice-presidential nominees with a virtual roll-call, in advance of the national convention. The committee still hasn’t announced the date of the virtual roll-call, but it will be later than July 21, because the credentials committee meets that day.
See this story, which erroneously claims that Ohio law requires the nomination to be made before the actual convention. Ohio changed its law on June 2.
Kelly Gallagher has this opinion piece in WestView News, criticizing the CNN debate rules. WestView News is an on-line newspaper in New York City.
This story describes the many states in which the Democratic Party is trying to keep Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., off the ballot.
Nevada held primaries for congress and state office on June 14, 2024. Three candidates appeared on the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Senate. The incumbent, Jacky Rosen, was easily re-nominated. One of the three candidates was Mike Schaefer, who is an elected official in California. He is a member of the Board of Equalization, a partisan office in California.
Schaefer was elected to the California Board of Equalization in 2018 as a Democrat, and re-elected in 2022. He is term-limited so he can’t run for re-election in 2026. As to why he ran for U.S. Senate in Nevada this month, he enjoys running for office. He is 86 years old. No media in California seems to have reported on his Nevada run, but here is a news story from last month from Nevada which did note that he lives in California. Schaefer got 2.2% of the vote in the Nevada primary.
This is another in a series of blog posts that show how the CNN debate criteria for the June 27, 2024 debate would have excluded popular minor party and independent candidates of the past. The print edition of Ballot Access News for June 26, 1996, shows that the Reform Party, or independent petitions supporting Ross Perot, had only been verified in states containing 226 electoral votes, short of the CNN requirement of 270 electoral votes.
Separate from that, even if the Reform Party, or independent Perot petitions, had reached 270, Perot still would not have met the CNN requirements because he was not yet the nominee of the Reform Party, and his nomination was contested. His opponent for the Reform nomination, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, was not defeated by Perot until the national party mail-in primary ballot on August.18, 1996.
