’Unlawful’: Republicans to legally challenge replacement of Joe Biden

US House Speaker Mike Johnson has warned Republicans would legally challenge the replacement of Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket for the November 5 election. Johnson made the remarks during an interview on ABC’s ’This Week’ on Sunday – before President Biden had officially dropped out of the race. Johnson observed that state laws govern elections and switching candidates could face major legal obstacles. “These elections are handled at the state level. Every state has its own system,“ he said. “In some of these, it’s not possible to simply just switch out a candidate who has been chosen through the democratic, small D, democratic process over such a long period of time.“ “14 million Democrats voted to make Joe Biden the nominee. “So it would be wrong and I think unlawful in accordance to some of these states’ rules for a handful of people to go in a backroom and switch it out because they don’t like the candidate