Louisiana voters picked Joe Biden in Democratic presidential primary. Now what happens?
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (BRPROUD) – What will happen on the Louisiana ballot since President Joe Biden was picked for Democrats in the spring primary?
The president announced he would withdraw from the 2024 election and backed Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Presidential Preference Primary is held every four years in the spring of the presidential election year to select the party’s nominee by majority vote. Biden was picked for the Democrats.
Since Louisiana picked him as the Democratic nominee in the spring primary and he has dropped out of the race, what will happen on Louisiana presidential ballots?
Louisiana’s Democratic delegates will have to decide who they support at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19. Randal Gaines, the state party chairman, told BRProud they would endorse Harris as their nominee.
According to Secretary of State Nancy Landry’s office, the deadline for candidates for the presidential elector to file all the necessary qualifying documents with their office is Aug. 23.
According to the Louisiana Election Code, for the election of the president, one elector will be selected from each congressional district in the state, and two additional electors will be chosen from the entire state as a whole.
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A presidential elector is a member of the Electoral College, the body that formally elects the president and vice president of the United States. Voters in Louisiana will vote for the people running the group of people who will cast their votes at the Electoral College, not directly for candidates for president and vice president.
The Open Primary/Presidential/Congressional election is Tuesday, Nov. 5. The Congressional General Election is Saturday, Dec. 7.
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