The Democratic National Committee’s rules committee chair Minnesota Gov Tim Walz and Dem official Leah Daughtry on Wednesday informed delegates that the virtual roll-call to formally nominate President Biden will begin no earlier than August 7th, CBS News reports.
“None of this will be rushed. Unlike our nation’s other major political party, our rules are set in public meetings, anchored in the Party’s charter and its traditions. That will continue in the 2024 cycle, as it must with so much at stake,” Walz and Daughtry wrote to the rules committee’s 186 members.
The updated timeframe follows Tuesday’s effort by Congressional Dems to urge the party to slow all of this down and give the “replace Biden” crowd time to maneuver. Complicating matters is that, although Ohio Republicans caved and rewrote the ballot access deadline rules, Dems don’t trust them not to fuck around and tie up Biden’s eligibility in the courts with Sherrod Brown running.