My father and I were discussing this. He was elected to the state legislature the same year Nixon became president, so he was very familiar with the race in 1968.
If you remember Johnson didn’t run because of Vietnam. RFK Sr. was assassinated before the convention. That left McCarthy and McGovern. They were already candidates and McGovern had the most votes so he got the nomination.
So with filing dates in some states passed and others quickly approaching either (whoever the obscure person currently running against Biden) will be the nominee vs. Biden/ Harris.
I’m not sure states allow drop in candidates after the deadline has passed.
As Kamala would have filed with the Biden/Harris ticket then she could remain on the ballot in all the states in case Joe was to have an unfortunate “mishap”.
Does this make sense? I’m trying to say that many states’ laws may not allow a party to parachute in a new candidate at the last minute if they already have a candidate (Harris) on the ballot.
Hubert Humphrey got the nomination in 1968 not George McGovern.
DNC changed their.rules in 2022.
Way it works now is, once a nominee has been elected at their convention.. in this case Biden, and they were to drop out for any reason the DNC gets to just name someone to be the nominee. Doesn’t have to be anyone that ran in the primaries. They can select of their own accord anyone without any public voting at all.
So expect Biden to be propped up through the convention, accept the nomination at the convention and then be pushed aside and someone else be declared their nominee by the DNC leadership.