Democrats will vote on presidential nominee August 7 as new poll finds majority of party wants Biden out

Democratic Party delegates won’t hold the virtual roll call vote to formalize the party’s presidential nominee until the first week in August, according to a co-chair of the party’s rules committee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

This announcement came after rumors had spread that the roll call would happen as early as this week.

Walz, who addressed reporters during a press conference meant to highlight Republicans’ record on abortion ahead of Ohio Senator JD Vance’s first speech since being chosen as Donald Trump’s new running-mate, said there is no possibility that the virtual voting would begin before the first day of next month.

The virtual roll call is necessary to ensure that Biden — or another nominee — is formalized on paperwork that must be submitted to various state election officials so the party’s ticket can appear on the Democratic Party ballot line in the November general election.

Walz told reporters that the virtual roll call was being motivated by concerns that an Ohio law which purported to push back the state’s August 7 deadline for nomination paperwork would not be honored by the Republican-controlled state government. Because the Democrats’ quadrennial convention opens on August 19, Biden or another nominee could have been kept off the ballot if the deadline was missed, even though the state’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, signed a law which purported to move the deadline.

“Our job is to set the rules for a convention. This has been done always,” Walz said. He added that the virtual vote would be done “probably by the 15th of August.”

Some Democrats had feared that an earlier scheduled committee meeting this week would be used to force an early roll call and lock Biden in on the ballot, despite