When is the DNC 2024? Everything you need to know as Harris bids to replace Biden on Democrat ticket

With President Joe Biden having dropped out of the 2024 White House race, attention has now turned to the Democratic party and their plan for nominating his replacement.

Biden, 81, has endorsedVice President Kamala Harris, 59, to become the Democratic nominee and a slew of Democratic donors, lawmakers and public figures have thrown their support behind her.

But Harris is yet to gain the title officially – something that won’t be formalized until the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August.

With less than a month to go to the DNC, here’s what you need to know:

The Democratic National Convention is slated to start on 19 August 2024.

The convention will then run for four days, ending on 22 August.

Democratic delegates from all 50 states and US territories will attend the convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

The DNC said Chicago was chosen because it “represents the diversity of the Democratic Party and the country.”

“It’s a union city that sits at the heart of the Midwest, and it’s a Democratic stronghold that was part of the ‘blue wall’ crucial to the Biden-Harris victory in 2020,” the convention organizers wrote on the DNC website.

Roughly 4,000 Democratic delegates out of 4,700 pledged to support Biden after he swept the party’s primary elections earlier this year.

But, now that Biden has dropped out of the race, those delegates are now up for grabs.

Following Biden’s announcement on Sunday, DNC chair Jaime Harrison pledged a “transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November”.

“This process will be governed by established rules and procedures of the Party. Our delegates are prepared to take seriously their