Johnson’s assertion, which echoed remarks he made during the Republican National Convention, suggests a strategy Republicans could be looking toward should Biden decides to withdraw from the presidential election. “I think in states where it can be contested, I expect that it will be, and they’ll have an interesting battle on their hands,”
the Louisiana Republican said Thursday of a possible switch.
Technically, Biden has not yet been formally nominated to be the Democratic presidential candidate and won’t be until a vote of the delegates selected to the Democratic National Convention.
Still, Johnson said there might be grounds for a challenge, given that Biden was the overwhelming winner of the party’s primaries.
“I think they would run into some legal impediments in at least a few of these jurisdictions,” he told host Martha Raddatz. “We’ll see how it plays out.”