DNC Pushing Nominating Convention to August Due to Coronavirus Fears
The Democratic presidential primary will not be wrapped up by July. Planners at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) initially scheduled the party’s nominating convention for the week of July 13. But, as several…
The Democratic presidential primary will not be wrapped up by July.
Planners at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) initially scheduled the party’s nominating convention for the week of July 13.
But, as several states postponed their primaries due to coronavirus fears, questions arose as to whether the DNC would hold its convention as originally planned.
On Thursday, Joe Solmonese, the Democratic National Convention CEO, announced that the event would be pushed back to the week of August 17.
“After a great deal of scenario planning and giving thought to how it is this event can have the greatest impact in the electoral process and the greatest impact in terms of what we can bring to Milwaukee, we felt the best decision, not knowing all the answers, was to delay this,” Solomese said.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez hailed the decision to delay the convention, “Leadership means being able to adapt, and that’s exactly what our party is doing.”