“Delegates Are Democracy” is one campaign reaching out to delegates in the name of providing such information. Chris Dempsey, a former staffer at the Democratic Party of Massachusetts who served in Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is involved with the effort. Delegates, he says, “are essential to our democracy, and they will be especially essential if the president were to withdraw from the race. They’ll go overnight from being a group of people that thought they were attending a party, to having the weight of democracy on their shoulders.”
Liam Kerr, founder of Welcome PAC, a group that has supported moderate Democrats in swing districts, is another figure engaged in the campaign. Dempsey declined to identify any other parties involved.
Dempsey says the delegates he has spoken to are frustrated by the lack of information they are getting from the DNC about how the convention would work if Biden withdraws. “We want to make sure that if [Biden] does choose to withdraw, that we’re not plunged into a moment of chaos, where all of a sudden these delegates feel underprepared for what’s ahead,” he says.
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