“The Biden campaign and DNC are working to put in the fix,” says an unhappy Biden delegate from Maryland.
The DNC is moving ahead with plans to nominate Biden early via a virtual roll call in order to stamp out the growing Democrat rebellion against Biden’s candidacy.
Here’s more from Axios:
The Democratic National Committee is quietly steaming ahead with plans to technically nominate President Biden weeks before the party’s convention next month, Axios has learned.
It’s the latest effort by Biden’s team to stamp out the Democratic rebellion that’s been pushing for the president to step aside since his bad performance in the June 27 debate.
Once Biden receives votes from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates, it will become exceedingly difficult to remove him from atop the Democratic presidential ticket.
The DNC’s current plan is to train state party chairs next week on how to conduct the electronic voting in a secure way. The window for voting is likely to open on July 29 and conclude by Aug. 5, according to people familiar with the matter.
If the working plan for a “virtual roll call” holds, Biden just has to outlast his party’s critics for about two more weeks.
For the 81-year-old Biden, time finally may be on his side.
“They are trying to shut down the process earlier. We can’t allow it…”
Some delegates are concerned that the DNC is trying to jam them by moving up the voting deadline.
“Behind the scenes, people at the Biden campaign and DNC are working to put in the fix,” Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, a Biden delegate from Maryland, wrote to her fellow state delegates last week, according to an email obtained by Axios.
“Put simply, they are trying to shut down the process earlier. We can’t allow it,” she wrote. “I am asking you to ask the DNC to stop pushing for an early vote.”
“There’s an information vacuum,” said Chris Dempsey, a longtime Democratic activist in Massachusetts who is working to inform delegates of their role at the convention.
“The delegates we talk to have heard very little from the state parties or the DNC.”
The Biden campaign and the DNC knows that after the assassination attempt on President Trump, their chances of Biden winning are even less than they were after the debate. And this Democrat rebellion is just going to keep growing and the pressure will continue to mount for Biden to drop out of the race and hand the reins to Kamala. Democrats are even more desperate than they were, but that’s why Biden and the DNC are trying to “put in the fix” to make Biden the nominee well before the DNC.