Election Day [Week][Month[s]] [Year] 2020 follow-along thread

[Northern_Piper]

I asked this same question back in the spring. The answer seemed to be that the party could not keep a candidate off a state-run primary, but if that candidate won the primary, the party was not obliged to recognise delegates for that candidate at the convention (speaking of presidential primaries).

Could the Democratic Party have kept Bernie off the primaries?

This point has come up in various permutations over the past few months, and as a furriner, I’m confused. Over in the “Bernie Withdraws” thread, Left Hand of Dorkness says this: But I thought, from previous threads on primaries, that access to the ballot for primary elections is determined by state laws? And if you as a candidate meet the state’s requirements to enter a primary, the party can’t keep you from entering? And, since those state laws are set by the 50 states, there are 50 differ…