Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
As the general-election phase of the 2024 presidential election got underway in earnest, Democratic officials noticed an unexpected administrative problem: President Joe Biden wouldn’t be formally renominated until mid-August, which means he’d miss the filing deadlines to appear on the ballot in Alabama and Ohio.
The state’s Republican governor then called a special session to resolve the mess. “This is a ridiculous — this is an absurd situation,” DeWine recently declared. It’d be quite easy to approve a fix, but GOP legislators are approaching the matter in a transactional way: The Republican-led House and Senate will allow Biden’s name to appear on the 2024 ballot, they’ve said, but only in exchange for unrelated changes to state election laws.
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