Democratic Party plans to run out the clock for Biden

The Democratic National Committee is quietly steaming ahead with plans to technically nominate President Biden weeks before the party's convention next month, Axios has learned.

"Behind the scenes, people at the Biden campaign and DNC are working to put in the fix," Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, a Biden delegate from Maryland, wrote to her fellow state delegates last week, according to an email obtained by Axios.

"Put simply, they are trying to shut down the process earlier.

We can't allow it," she wrote. "I am asking you to ask the DNC to stop pushing for an early vote."

"There's an information vacuum," said Chris Dempsey, a longtime Democratic activist in Massachusetts who is working to inform delegates of their role at the convention."The delegates we talk to have heard very little from the state parties or the DNC."

It's the latest effort by Biden's team to stamp out the Democratic rebellion that's been pushing for the president to step aside since his bad performance in the June 27 debate.

Once Biden receives votes from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates, it will become exceedingly difficult to remove him from atop the Democratic presidential ticket.

The DNC's current plan is to train state party chairs next week on how to conduct the electronic voting in a secure way. The window for voting is likely to open on July 29 and conclude by Aug.

5, according to people familiar with the matter.

If the working plan for a "virtual roll call" holds, Biden just has to outlast his party's critics for about two more weeks.For the 81-year-old Biden, time finally may be on his side.