The full Democratic National Committee will have to approve the measure as the party tries to come to grips with staging a convention during the coronavirus pandemic.
The party's Rules and Bylaws Committee unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday giving the team overseeing the convention the authority to change the format, size and dates of the event.
The outbreak has already forced organizers to move the Milwaukee convention from mid-July to the week of Aug. 17. "This isn't about option A or B but it's about looking at all the pieces of the convention, how to scale up or down as we get closer to August," Rae said.Elaine Kamarck, who served in the Clinton administration and has been on the party's rules committee since 1977, said:"It is good that we are doing this several months in front of the convention. We should use it as an opportunity perhaps to make lemonade out of lemons.
Perez criticized President Donald Trump and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel for their handling of the GOP convention scheduled for Charlotte, North Carolina, Aug. 24-27.
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