Technically we did already select our Prez/VP/HOC candidates, based on the first 3 to join the party. It might end up that way but don’t read too much into it, I personally thought that was a little premature.
Due to growing interest, we could decide to do primary elections instead. I don’t want others to be discouraged to join our budding Party based on the idea there might not be a role for them.
An HCP/NERD merger? I wouldn’t rule that out, either. Policy-wise, we do agree on a lot. Only issue is we’d have probably too many top-tier candidates to comfortably accommodate in only 3 candidate slots.