Facing a contentious convention this summer in Chicago and rumblings about replacing President Biden on the ballot, the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday will vote to change party rules to allow them to nominate him virtually before he sets foot in the convention hall.
President Joe Biden speaks during an event with the Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 31, 2024, to celebrate their championship season and victory in Super Bowl LVIII. However, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law on Sunday to extend the filing deadline to accommodate Mr. Biden, and the DNC has given no indication it will halt plans for the virtual nomination.
“Once President Biden is virtually nominated, then that will be it. He will be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party and only death or incapacitation will prevent that moving forward,” said Josh Putnam, party rules expert and founder of FHQ Strategies LLC, a non-partisan political consulting venture. “There will be no substitutes.”
Most of the demonstrations will be in opposition to Mr. Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war against Hamas, which is unlikely to be resolved by the convention. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey taken last week found nearly half of all likely U.S. voters, including a majority of Democratic voters, would “approve of Democrats finding another candidate” to replace Mr. Biden, who, at 81, has presided over an economic downturn and has increasingly shown a decline in mental acuity.
The DNC did not respond to an inquiry about the status of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee’s scheduled meeting on Tuesday to change the rules to allow a virtual nomination.
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