DNC meets Wednesday to decide on Harris nomination timing

Vice President Kamala Harris attends a moderated conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Photo by Chris duMond/Getty Images)

As the surge of endorsements of Democrats backing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed President Biden as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee continues on Monday, the big question is when will the Democratic National Committee formally nominate Harris.

That answer could come Wednesday afternoon, when the DNC’s Rules Committee meets to hammer out the timetable for the presidential nomination roll call. In a statement early Monday, the committee noted that with Biden ending his re-election bid, it’s now its “responsibility to implement a framework to select a new nominee, which will be open, transparent, fair, and orderly.”

The committee announced that the meeting would take place at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, and that the proceedings would be available to watch on the DNC’s Youtube page. The push to move forward with the virtual nomination of Biden ahead of Democrats' in-person convention, which kicks off on Aug. 19 in Chicago, comes because of a ballot-access conflict in Ohio that was eventually corrected.

The DNC has previously said that the roll call would not take place before Aug. 1, and a source with knowledge of the Rules Committee’s thinking tells Fox News that that parameter still stands.