Ohio governor calls special session to pass legislation ensuring President Biden is on 2024 ballot

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden is on the state’s 2024 ballot.

The special session was called for Tuesday.

“Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting President of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is (an) absurd situation,” DeWine said.

The question of whether Biden will appear on the ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the solidly red state’s constitution.

The Democratic National Convention, where Biden is to be formally nominated, falls after Ohio’s ballot deadline of Aug. 7. The convention will be held Aug. 19-22 in Chicago

Ohio governor calls special session to pass legislation ensuring President Biden is on 2024 ballot

Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next Tuesday to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden is on the state’s 2024 ballot.

apnews.com

 

[Chishawk1425]

Mainstream Republicans causing the unnecessary disaster. Pitiful

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Mainstream Republicans causing the unnecessary disaster. Pitiful

This isn't on the repubs dummy. Frankly they didn't even have to bring up a session to let him get in.

 

[Scruddy]

Mainstream Republicans causing the unnecessary disaster. Pitiful

Republicans extend an olive branch to you idiots and your response is to shit on them. Why is it not biden's fault? I mean, I know it never is, but why specifically this time is it not?

 

[thewop]

Good move

 

[h-hawk]

Ohio in the past has always passed legislation to allow late convention results. But this cycle, the Republicans instead of just doing it like they used to, made it into a big deal for some reason. It worked - they grabbed lots of publicity.

 

[TJ8869]

If need be, couldn’t the DNC simply certify Biden as their candidate prior to the deadline? It’s not like there was going to be a lot of drama at the convention anyway.

DeWine is doing the right thing in forcing Republicans to address the issue. This country is already divided enough as it is. Leaving Biden off the ballot in Ohio would have caused damage that would take decades to repair.

Having said that, both parties should probably consider holding their conventions a little earlier in the future. If we’re going to make mail-in voting and early voting a bigger part of the process then states need time to print and mail millions of ballots.

 

[ThorneStockton]

I hadn't heard about the Swiss billionaire thing

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Mainstream Republicans causing the unnecessary disaster. Pitiful

Follow the law, drunk!

 

[pjhawk]

Good for DeWine here, but it's getting pretty ridiculous when we're congratulating people for calling special sessions to accomplish things that in the past were just the usual formalities.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Good for the Governor, but why not just issue the waiver like they have done in the past for both parties?

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Good for the Governor, but why not just issue the waiver like they have done in the past for both parties?

Reaction to this type stuff.

Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado ballot, US supreme court rules

Court’s decision clears way for ex-president to appear on primary ballot in all states

www.theguardian.com

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Reaction to this type stuff.

Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado ballot, US supreme court rules

Court’s decision clears way for ex-president to appear on primary ballot in all states

www.theguardian.com

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html

?

Are you asking my reaction to the Court’s opinion a couple months back?

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

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Are you asking my reaction to the Court’s opinion a couple months back?

No. It was in regards to what's going on in Ohio.

Tit for Tat political stuff.

 

[Huey Grey]

Eff the Rs. The RNC convention was after this date in both 2020 and 2016 and the Rs had no problem allowing Trump on the ballot. Yet more proof that the Rs are bad faith bargaining partners

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

No. It was in regards to what's going on in Ohio.

Tit for Tat political stuff.

Got it. Yeah, probably is some of that going on.

 

[Chishawk1425]

As I said a long time ago

✔️

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

If need be, couldn’t the DNC simply certify Biden as their candidate prior to the deadline? It’s not like there was going to be a lot of drama at the convention anyway.

DeWine is doing the right thing in forcing Republicans to address the issue. This country is already divided enough as it is. Leaving Biden off the ballot in Ohio would have caused damage that would take decades to repair.

Having said that, both parties should probably consider holding their conventions a little earlier in the future. If we’re going to make mail-in voting and early voting a bigger part of the process then states need time to print and mail millions of ballots.

Ehh I don't think any other state requires the nominees names to be turned in as early as Ohio.

This strikes me as more of an issue of Ohio being an outlier in when they expect the nominations in rather than the conventions being held too late in the year.

Ohio created exemptions twice before for both conventions so it's shown that it's clearly not needed to be that early.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Reaction to this type stuff.

Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado ballot, US supreme court rules

Court’s decision clears way for ex-president to appear on primary ballot in all states

www.theguardian.com

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html

While I didn't agree with their move because I said basically that you needed to have a conviction of insurrection or some sort of insurrection adjacent crime, the issue here is that no one is arguing that Trump didn't commit insurrection.

So you are comparing someone who attempted a coup and committed insurrection to a paperwork filing deadline that clearly earlier than any other state in the union.