Hypothetical: If Sanders dies of coronavirus, what should happen to the primary?

[MineralMan]

62. What should happen to the Primary? That's your question.

To Which Primary do you refer? Or are you referring to the Convention?

It's very unlikely that either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders will die prior to the Democratic Nominating Convention. Both are isolating themselves in their homes, pretty much, and avoiding risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

If, in the unlikely circumstance that one of them died before the convention, their names would still appear on the primary ballots in the states still left to hold their primaries. There are multiple such states. In any state, delegates would be allocated proportionally between the candidates, as usual, unless a candidate died prior to that allocation taking place.

However, at the convention, a candidate who had died would not be put forward for nomination. Therefore, any delegates allocated for that candidate would be free to vote for a nominated candidate. Since there will only be two candidates put forward, assuming that neither has died, the death of one candidate would reduce the number of potential nominees to just one. Nomination by acclamation would, no doubt, be the result.

While it might be possible for another candidate's name to be put forward, that would seem to me to be a very unlikely thing to happen.

In actual fact, both candidates will almost certainly still be alive at the time of the Convention. The odds dictate that pretty clearly. What will happen then is that the candidate who has the majority of delegates will win the nomination. It's very simple.

Beyond that, I will not bite on your offering. I can see the hook embedded in it.