The Democratic National Committee is moving forward with its plans to virtually nominate President Joe Biden in the coming weeks, sending an email to its members this morning (17) stressing that this is “the wisest approach” – despite strong resistance from some Democratic lawmakers.
According to an email sent to convention rules committee members at the eleventh hour and obtained by CNNthe committee will proceed with its previously scheduled meeting on Friday to deliberate – and initiate – the steps and timeline for Biden’s virtual nomination.
Importantly, the letter states that “no virtual voting will begin before August 1.”
“Our discussion on Friday about how the Convention will operate will include discussion of a virtual voting element, which will conclude before the in-person Convention,” the letter says. “We will outline the reasoning below for why a virtual vote is the wisest approach and explain how a virtual vote would work.”
As reported by CNN On Tuesday, the DNC’s decision to move forward virtually with Biden’s nomination in the coming weeks — and a quiet pressure campaign by some Biden allies to speed up that process ahead of August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago — sparked an uproar within the Democratic Party.
A growing faction of House Democrats, convinced that Biden is too politically damaged to defeat Trump in November, is calling on the DNC to abandon those plans, and a draft letter is circulating among Democratic lawmakers calling on the party to slow down the process.
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