Joe Biden’s unprecedented decision to drop out of the presidential election leaves the Democratic Party mere weeks to find and rally around a Democratic nominee for president.
Ultimately, 4,600 delegates slated to attend the August convention will decide the future of the Democratic Party. But what the party will do in the short period before the mid-August convention to establish its presidential ticket remains partially TBD.
All eyes are on an obscure 180-person body called the Convention Rules Committee, which will decide this week whether to proceed with a virtual vote from the delegates in advance of the August convention. The party originally organized the virtual roll call to comply with an Ohio ballot deadline but that issue has since been largely rendered moot because the Ohio Legislature changed the law.