Zogby, formerly part of the party’s executive committee, made the suggestion in a memo to Jaime Harrison, the D.N.C. chair.
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The process Mr. Zogby outlines in the memo, however, starts with an unlikely prospect:
1) Mr. Biden announcing that he would drop out of the race.
2) Biden instruct the party not to simply designate Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee, but instead
3) meet after the Fourth of July to “lay out a one-month campaign schedule to select the party’s nominee.”
4) Potential candidates would then need to secure the endorsements of 40 current D.N.C. members, including four from each of the party’s four regions. “Given the relatively small number of D.N.C. members,” he wrote, “such a process will most likely result in not more than five potential nominees.”
4) Potential candidates would then need to secure the endorsements of 40 current D.N.C. members, including four from each of the party’s four regions. “Given the relatively small number of D.N.C. members,” he wrote, “such a process will most likely result in not more than five potential nominees.”
5) The party would then host two televised events for the candidates to “make their cases before Democratic voters across the country.”
I could go for this with some small but significant, to me, tweaks.
i. Not DNC members, that’s smoke-filled room. The president would release all 3,894 of the delegates he won in the direct democracy elections in the primaries.
ii. Biden doesn’t say anything for or against Vice President Harris. If she wants to run for the renomination, and I am sure that she will, she should be permitted to.
iii. The campaign would be for a month, candidate to delegate and the top five delegate vote getters would then participate in debates before registered Democratic voters nationwide.
iv. The voters would then vote electronically for the delegates representing their candidate and the delegates would be bound to vote for that candidate on the floor of the Convention in Chicago, as they are bound now.
