Important Takeaways:

• Democratic rules mandate that the delegates Biden won remain bound to support him at the party’s upcoming national convention unless he tells them he’s leaving the race.
• The conventions and their rules are controlled by the political parties. The current rules read: “Delegates elected to the national convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.”
• The vice president is Biden’s running mate, but that doesn’t mean she can swap in for him at the top of the ticket by default. Biden also can’t decree that she replace him should he suddenly decide to leave the race.
• If Biden opts to abandon his reelection campaign, Harris would likely join other top Democratic candidates looking to replace him.
• “The business of nominating someone to represent a political party is the business of the political party.”

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