July 20, 2018 – On Saturday, Democrats will vote in Wyoming and Alaska, giving President Joe Biden a chance to get closer to his party's reelection nominee.
When it comes to presidential election years, the two least populous states, Alaska and Wyoming, have almost no impact on either the intraparty or general election vote. With the Georgia primary on March 12, Biden essentially secured the Democratic candidacy and will almost certainly face off against Trump in November as the Republican nominee.
The Alaska Range On Saturday, Democrats in Alaska will conduct a party-run preference poll at both in-person and online district meetings, using a voice vote as the voting method. Following Dean Phillips's decision to stop his campaign last month, Biden finds himself as the sole Democrat remaining on the ballot. At the same meetings as regular party business, the vote is taking place.
Voting was postponed by one week. After only Biden and Phillips were declared eligible to vote and Phillips withdrew his candidacy, the Democrats' plans for an April 6 ranked vote by mail election were shelved. The Democratic National Committee green-lit their revised strategy.
Biden was the sole candidate appearing on the ballot, according to Lindsay Kavanaugh, the executive director of the Alaska party. There were no options for write-ins or undecided voters. You can't vote no," she proclaimed. No need to partake. Instead of selecting "yes" or "no," you select "candidate."
"To make sure we're as inclusive as possible," she explained, and to prevent the appearance that party leaders were selecting candidates personally, the party moved forward with the vote despite only having one candidate. According to Saturday's result, fifteen pledged delegates will be distributed to Alaska.
A Wyoming The Democratic Party of Wyoming will choose its presidential nominee from among 17 delegates at Saturday's county caucuses. Also decided in the caucuses are delegates to the June 1st, Casper, state Democratic convention. Thirteen delegates from Wyoming will be selected at that location for the national convention.
The state party chair, vice chair, and two members of the national committee from Wyoming make up the remaining four "automatic" delegates; none of them have made a commitment to support Biden or any other candidate.
All seventeen delegates from Wyoming will cast their first ballots for president on Saturday. The delegates will have the freedom to vote for anybody they want in the event that additional rounds of voting are necessary.
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