Suppose Harris then replaces him with Clinton or whoever. What would happen to the votes already cast for Harris / walt? Would they automatically go to Harris / Clinton? Or would those ballots be considered essentially wasted? Maybe it's different state by state. Does anyone know?
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People would have cast a vote for Harris/Walz....NOT....Harris/Clinton
Thus, those votes only go towards adding to the totals of Harris/Walz only AND Harris/Clinton only. It would be like two different candidates were running for President on the Dem side. The Walz and Clinton votes cannot be added together, they are seperate votes and should be counted as such. So, let's say at the end of the election Harris/Walz gets 65M votes and Harris/Clinton gets 50M votes. Now Trump/Vance gets 100M votes. Trump/Vance wins because that campaign got the most votes. Harris might think she won with 115M votes, but she is running two different campaigns. Tough toenails, Kamala, you don't get the Oval Office.
Yeah, that's not how the electoral college works.