Speaker Johnson Hints At Legal Challenges If Democrats Replace Biden At Last Minute

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested that House Republicans will support legal challenges if the Democrats attempt to ignore primary voters and replace President Biden on the presidential election ticket at the last minute.

“Democrats are looking into potential legal hurdles to replacing their nominee so late in the process. Do you think that whoever emerges from the Democratic Convention as that party’s nominee for president and vice president, do you think those people should be on the ballot in all 50 states? Or would you support efforts to sue to keep those nominees off state ballots assuming it’s not President Biden or Vice President Harris?” asked CNN host Jake Tapper.

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“Look, I’m a former litigator, you know a constitutional attorney. I’d just made note in some uh… comments of the last week that they have real problems,” Speaker Johnson replied.

“I mean, every state has their own election system, that’s our constitutional system, that’s the way it’s done. And in some of these states it’s a real hurdle, they have a real problem of replacing the nominee at the top of the ticket.”

Johnson went on to note that Biden was selected by Democratic voters to be their nominee through a months-long primary process. “It will be very interesting to see if the so-called party of democracy, the Democrats, go into a back room somewhere and switch it out and put someone else at the top of the ticket,” he said.

“I mean, I think they’ve got I think they’ve got legal hurdles in some of these states, and it’ll be litigated, I would expect, on the ground there, and they’ll have to sort through that.”

Tapper followed up by asking about Democrat efforts to remove President Trump from the ballot in Colorado and Maine, which were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“I mean, the comparison between the two last cycle and this one is apples to oranges. What they’re trying to do, a handful of people in the party, including some of the top elected Democrats in the country, are trying to push Joe Biden out,” Johnson said. 

“You know it’s an interesting question Jake. If he’s incapable of running for president, how is capable of governing right now? I mean there is five months left in this administration. It’s a real concern, and it’s a danger to the country because on the world stage, our adversaries see exactly what all of us see, and that’s a problem.”

A number of Democratic lawmakers, consultants and donors have called on President Biden to step aside following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

On Sunday, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) became the fifth Senate Democrat to call for President Biden’s removal. “I think that we have a lot of talent on the bench, a lot of good people,” Manchin told CNN, adding that his top picks would be Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

Manchin joined Senators Welch (D-VT), Heinrich (D-NM), and vulnerable colleagues up for re-election in November in Senators Tester (D-MT) and Brown (D-OH). Manchin has already announced that he will not be seeking re-election.

A number of House Democrats have also called on Biden to step aside.

Despite growing pressure, President Biden has been adamant that he will remain in the race and is looking forward to returning to the campaign trail next week.

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