# Can the Democratic party nominate someone other than the incumbent President at their convention? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 28, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democratic-party-nominate-someone-other-than-the-incumbent-president-at-their-convention/1003428 "2024-06-28T02:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democratic-party-nominate-someone-other-than-the-incumbent-president-at-their-convention/1003428/17 "2024-06-28T04:33:44Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > When a team benches their starting quarterback and promotes another, is that “giving up on winning?” To the contrary, they’re trying to go with the guy who gives the **best** chance of winning. > > There’s still 4.5 months before Election Day - plenty of time to coalesce around a guy like Newsom. This isn’t a football team. The corporate entity “Joe Biden for President” can’t just turn itself into “Gavin Newsom for President” overnight, and they can’t just give all their money and employees to some other corporation. A new candidate would be starting from scratch four months before the election and there’s no way they could catch up to Trump in that time. If Biden drops out, Trump wins. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democratic-party-nominate-someone-other-than-the-incumbent-president-at-their-convention/1003428)._