Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake forgets to gavel in DNC

The Democratic National Convention is already off to an entertaining start.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was brought in at what seems like the last moment to gavel in the Democratic National Convention Monday as former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned and decided not to call the DNC to order.

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Rawlings-Blake smiled as she called the DNC to order, but she may have gotten caught up in her wording when she walked off and didn't bang the gavel.

But someone walked onto the stage to reminder her to do so, and she ran back to quickly bang the gavel, to which the crowd cheered.

The moment was  made into GIF form by NBC Nightly News:

And video of the moment can be seen below:

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