DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Florida State Fairgrounds Entertainment Hall, Friday, July 22, in Tampa, Fla. | AP Photo Wasserman Schultz will not gavel in DNC

Outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not gavel in the party convention on Monday.

"I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention," Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel.


Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Baltimore and the DNC secretary, will instead open the proceedings in Philadelphia, a person familiar with the situation told POLITICO.

"I stepped down the other day because I wanted to make sure that having brought us to this momentous day and to Philadelphia and planned the convention that is going to be the best one that we've ever had in our party's history that this needs to be all about making sure that everyone knows that Hillary Clinton would make the best president," Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel, declining to answer any further questions, according to the report.

Gabriel Debenedetti contributed.