evidence: Don’t believe the hype: Republicans are unlikely to gain traction in legal efforts to prevent Democrats from taking President Joe Biden off the ballot. No state will have printed ballots prior to the Democratic National Convention, and the nominee chosen by the party at or in the run up to the convention was always slated to be the person who appears on the ballot in each state. Still, despite the odds, it seems certain some legal challenges will emerge in a climate when nearly every political controversy winds up in court. House Speaker Mike Johnson teased possible legal challenges to Biden’s removal earlier Sunday. "I think they've got legal hurdles in some of these states," he said on CNN. "And it'll be litigated, I would expect, on the ground there." But others involved in the process said any legal challenges would be longshots at best — if not outright frivolous. "The Democratic nominee for president will be on all 50 state ballots," wrote longtime Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias. "There is no basis for any legal challenge. Period."