President Biden may not be on the 2024 Ohio ballot

[Atticus Pizzaballa]

President Joe Biden could face legal hurdle to get on the 2024 Ohio ballot

Updated: Apr. 07, 2024, 1:05 p.m.|Published: Apr. 06, 2024, 6:16 p.m.


COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Joe Biden might not get on Ohio’s general-election ballot this November because of a scheduling conflict, a top staffer for Secretary of State Frank LaRose has warned Democrats.



In a Friday letter to Ohio Democratic Party Chair Liz Walters, LaRose’s legal counsel Paul Disantis wrote that while state law sets a deadline of Aug. 7 to certify presidential candidates for the Nov. 5 general election, Biden won’t be formally nominated until the Democratic National Convention, which is set for Aug. 19-22 in Chicago.



Disantis wrote that Democrats have only two options to avoid Biden being left off Ohio’s statewide ballot: either move up the date of the convention itself or get the Ohio General Assembly to pass a law by May 9 that creates an exemption for Biden.



In the letter, Disantis asked Walters to provide “clarification” and “any information that can assure this office of timely compliance with Ohio law.”



Ben Kindel, a spokesman for the Ohio secretary of state’s office, stated in a text that the reason that LaRose’s office didn’t flag the issue until now was because staff had been focused on last month’s primary election and was only now starting to prepare for the general election.



It’s not clear whether the state legislature, which is dominated by Republicans, would be willing to pass such an exemption within the next few weeks.



Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer has reached out to spokespeople for Republicans and Democrats in both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate for comment, as well as to the Biden campaign.



The Ohio Democratic Party is reviewing the letter, party spokesman Matt Keyes stated Saturday.



Copies of the letter, which was first reported on by ABC News, were provided to cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer by LaRose’s office and the Ohio Democratic Party.



Even if Biden makes the Ohio ballot, he faces an uphill climb to win the state in November. While Ohio has been a key swing state in the past, ex-President Donald Trump – the presumptive Republican presidential nominee this year – easily won the state in both 2016 and 2020.



However, if there’s no Democratic candidate for president on the November ballot, that could have ramifications for other races – including Ohio’s competitive U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown and GOP nominee Bernie Moreno. Moreno won last month’s GOP Senate primary over LaRose, as well as state Sen. Matt Dolan of Chagrin Falls.



Jeremy Pelzer covers state politics and policy for Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.


www.cleveland.com/news/2024/04/president-joe-biden-might-not-be-on-the-ohio-ballot-this-november-state-election-official-warns.html

Now this kind of problem is ridiculous.

[BHU]

And the Repukes have the gall to accuse Dems of stealing the election in 2020? I'll bet my last bottom dollar that conman Trump the Bible peddler is putting the screws to Repuke leadership in Ohio to not pass the measure. And he'll have the assistance of his lackey in the HOR "I don't wear a sports jacket cuz I'm just like you" Gym Shorts Jordan, the college wrestling giant & pervert Dr. enabler.

[clarencebunsen]

Why are you blaming Ohio politicians for anything? The date of the 2024 general election was established before any living person was born. The Ohio law is also quite old. A 90 day lead time between between nominating candidates and the election does not seem unreasonable to me. Expecting a state legislature to jump into action because one party's leadership did not pay attention to the calendar and state laws is quite unreasonable. It would be easier to change the convention date. No laws need to be changed for that, however inconvenient it may be .

[Clipper]

I will laugh my azz off if the "Democreeps" can't get Biden on the Ohio ballot. I guess the rest of the party who's who is just as slow moving as their decrepit candidate.

[BHU]

Apr 8, 2024 12:42:15 GMT -5 Clipper said:

I will laugh my azz off if the "Democreeps" can't get Biden on the Ohio ballot. I guess the rest of the party who's who is just as slow moving as their decrepit candidate.

Decrepit? Hardly. Biden took Trump & his lackeys apart at the SOTU, he didn't look decrepit to me or anyone else who isn't in love with Trump who's as corrupt as the day is long. Btw, how old are Trump's buddies, McConnell, Grassly, Romney & Trump himself? Or is their age a different matter?

You Trump lover's still can't stand the fact that Biden beat your guy, no matter what his age is or his policies.

Democreeps? What do you call people in power who support Trump who tried a coup & got law enforcemrnt officers beat almost to death? Patriots?

[BHU]

Apr 8, 2024 11:17:32 GMT -5 clarencebunsen said:

Why are you blaming Ohio politicians for anything? The date of the 2024 general election was established before any living person was born. The Ohio law is also quite old. A 90 day lead time between between nominating candidates and the election does not seem unreasonable to me. Expecting a state legislature to jump into action because one party's leadership did not pay attention to the calendar and state laws is quite unreasonable. It would be easier to change the convention date. No laws need to be changed for that, however inconvenient it may be .

I suppose it would be easirr to change the convention date. That would be a massive undertaking but better then expecting Trump & his Ohio lackeys to do the right thing.

MAGA & all that good stuff.

[Clipper]

You seem to assume that I am a "Trump lover." Make no mistake about it. I am NOT a Trump lover, but I AM a conservative Republican and your broad generalizations and assumptions concerning anyone not part of the overly liberal left are a bit ridiculous. The one thing that you CAN safely assume is that I WON'T be voting for Joe Biden, and YES, I do believe that Joe Biden is less than capable of running the country.

[artsyone]

Carry on gentlemen. The world is watching.

[Clipper]

I see no need to carry on. The "YOU Trump lovers" just pissed me off. Believe me when I say I wish we had viable and different candidates on both sides of the ticket. If I vote for Trump it will be more of a vote AGAINST Biden than an "enthusiastic" vote for Trump.

[BHU]

It's a free country & anyone can vote for whoever they want to. Me, I'm voting for Biden. I'l! Be damned if I'm going to vote for a fraud, a criminal coup plotter who stole our nuke secrets & a traitor to the oath of office, no matter what Biden's policies are. It also helps to vote for Biden considering 99% of Trump's former cabinet officials are warning the country not to put him back in. Maybe because they had a front row seat into what he's capable of.

We'll have a "free country" as long as Trump's not in power.

[clarencebunsen]

Biden will carry New York by a large margin no matter who runs against him. I won't vote for Trump or Biden so I shall vote for someone else.