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 Wednesday morning (17) stressing that this is “the wisest approach” — despite strong resistance from some Democratic lawmakers.
According to an email sent to members of the convention’s rules committee at the last minute and obtained by CNN the committee will proceed with its previously scheduled meeting on Friday to deliberate — and begin — 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 work will include discussion of a virtual voting element, which will conclude before the in-person Convention,” the letter reads. “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 with Biden’s nomination virtually in the coming weeks — and a quiet pressure campaign by some Biden allies to speed up that process ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August in Chicago — has 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 urging the party to slow the process.
Source: CNN Brasil
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