# What will the party do if Biden dies or becomes incapacitated sometime before the primaries end? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 11, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240 "2020-03-11T01:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240/21 "2020-03-15T00:49:40Z")
True, but he’s 78 and a very…tactile person. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240/22 "2020-03-15T01:19:45Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > It’s currently 881 delegates for Biden and 725 for sanders. > > It isn’t like sanders is some marginalized candidate, despite your efforts to portray him as such. > > Ideally Biden would pick a vp candidate or surrogate before it comes to this decision and they would take over for Biden. I think you know better than this. With all delegates allocated proportionally, that is a massive massive deficit to overcome. This isn’t football, you can’t just score 3 unanswered touchdowns for a 4th quarter comeback. No one seriously believes that Biden is getting shut out of delegates in any state now that’s it is a two person race. So, it’s impossible for him to come back, especially since TX and CA are done and Florida ain’t looking good. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240/23 "2020-03-15T02:15:54Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > It’s currently 881 delegates for Biden and 725 for sanders. > > It isn’t like sanders is some marginalized candidate, despite your efforts to portray him as such. > > Ideally Biden would pick a vp candidate or surrogate before it comes to this decision and they would take over for Biden. Except the 87 to Biden from Bloomberg and Pete. 890 to 736 last count. March 17th should end this, if bernie bombs out, he’d better concede. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240/24 "2020-03-15T13:39:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > March 17th should end this, if bernie bombs out, he’d better concede. Let’s hope so. But his followers might join the [Never Joe Movement](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/a-never-biden-movement-vows-not-to-vote-for-joe/ar-BB119HAG). (This is why the Democratic Party can’t have nice things. People can’t remember things that happened four years ago.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-party-do-if-biden-dies-or-becomes-incapacitated-sometime-before-the-primaries-end/849240.md?page=1)