WASHINGTON — After nearly a year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a recrafted program, and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along.
With President Joe Biden now out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris pursuing the party’s nomination, a dramatic role reversal for the two is likely to play out before a nationally televised audience when around 5,000 delegates, 12,000 volunteers, and 15,000 media members gather for four days in Chicago starting Aug. 19.