Reaction after Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race

Mary Alice Parks Mary Alice you have been keeping your ear to the ground talking to sources within the Democratic party but also hearing from delegates who have a lot of questions about how this plays out going forward yeah Rachel I just got off the phone with one uh Democratic State party chair who told me that he was not giving a heads up to this news uh which is obviously a big deal concering the fact all everything we've been talking about for the last hour but interesting he did say that he was given a call from the Biden univers the minute after the news broke the Biden team wanting to make sure that he was aware of the news but also that he was checking in with the delegates from his State obviously the conversation the mechanics of this nomination turn to those delegates like we've been talking about uh the state party chair said that in the conversation he's been having with his delegates from his State I should say it's a large Democratic State um so far all the Biden delegates telling him telling me that they will see to these marching orders from the president that they will back Harris that is their intention like we've been talking about on the air like you've been talking about with all of your guests this is a fluid situation Anything could happen if all of a sudden we get another name from a a governor a popular member of the Senate uh actually challenging Harris we will have to of course go back to these delegates but in our initial reporting in my initial reporting I can tell you that so far we're hearing these Biden delegates saying that it is in their best interest to stick with the president to stick with Harris because that's what the president asked them to do I also talked to one longtime um DNC leader who told me that when it comes to vetting he really believes the party has to stick with Harris because she is the only one that has truly been vetted you know I asked about Governors senators and people that are high-profile figures surely they have been vetted but he insisted to me it's just not the same that a vice president who has been on a national ticket has been vetted across the board and that right now the rep the the Democratic party just cannot risk a mistake here and that even a governor uh this one DNC leader sort of um oped to meet even a governor could in theory have some skeleton in the closet that that he said the party just should not take that kind of risk one interesting thing though will be not only of course who she picks as a running mid once she announces her candidacy but this question of super delegates I mean this is getting in the weeds but we don't know exactly if super delegates those elected uh party officials will be able to vote on the first Ballot or not um they have not formalized the rules around that virtual roll call around any roll call we know that those um rules were set to put in place this week so at this stage Rachel we are going to be tracking every meeting that the convention staff has that the DNC Party Staff has as they have to um rewrite these rules or vote on these rules with such a different sense of urgency with such a different um political landscape Rachel yeah Mary Alison I know you personally will be tracking that for us as well I want to go back to our