Democratic and Republican parties have contingency rules but White House contest could get messy
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Neither party’s rules say that the running mate must succeed a presidential nominee who quits or dies. The whole replacement process would “look messy” with “a lot of bargaining, a lot of trading favours, a lot of speeches to state delegations at conventions”, said Kamarck.Yes, but when party primary rules were different.
These days, if either candidate is gone before the convention, the party leadership – the DNC or Republican National Committee – would step in to manage the fallout.What would happen if a candidate dropped out after the conventions? The Republican fallout if Trump were incapacitated could be chaotic. During the primary, Republicans like Florida governor Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy tried to capture Trump’s Maga supporters, and might fancy their chances. But Trump’s closest primary rival, his former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, came from the more traditional conservative wing of the Republican Party. So the battle to replace Trump would be an ideological fight too.
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