“Every state has its own system. And in some of these, it’s not possible to simply just switch out a candidate… It would be wrong and I think unlawful in accordance to some of the states’ rules for a handful of people to go in the back room and switch it out because they don’t like the candidate any longer.”
— Speaker Mike Johnson, on ABC News, on replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.
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