...you think that the people who make the rules won't somehow find "exceptions".

That is correct.

The rules say that the nominee is the person who gets the most delegates. The delegates are bound to vote for the person who wins their state's nominating contest (primary or caucus). Biden will have won all those contests. Ergo, Biden will be the nominee.

The rules are there to prevent someone from finding an "exception" - to prevent another candidate from trying to get the nomination in the stead of the person who has the most delegates from winning nominating contests. They have been drafted specifically to resist the machinations of intelligent power-hungry political actors armed with lawyers (ie. every national candidate seeking the Presidency) and not have any "exceptions."

There's no "higher power" within the Democratic party that can step in and just decide to ignore the results of the actual primaries. That's not how the system works any more. The primary elections matter, and the results of the primaries are what will determine the nominee - not the convention. Even if you wish it were otherwise, if only for the entertainment value.

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