Every candidate, except Bernie Sanders, has said they will allow unelected superdelegates to choose the nominee even if someone else goes into the convention with the most delegates. They each think a brokered convention could work in their favor. In reality it would likely mean Biden or Bloomberg will become the Democratic nominee (and result in Donald Trump being re-elected). In order for there NOT to be a brokered convention, Bernie Sanders needs to reach 1991 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Please vote for Bernie!
Would you support Elizabeth Warren as the candidate if the convention decides to go with her as a progressive candidate that is not as extreme as Sanders, and therefore more likely to get Biden votes? Obviously it’s unlikely, but what’s your opinion?
Honestly? If Bernie has a significant leading plurality, then I cannot see myself supporting any candidate the DNC anoints at a brokered convention. Especially not Joe Dixiecrat Biden. But then again, I said I wouldn’t vote for Hillary and I ended up holding my nose and doing it anyway. (LOL not that it helped).
But .... Idk if I can play another round of “stfu voters, we know what’s best for you” from the DNC.
Remember, superdelegates haven’t always been around. They didn’t come into existence until the 80’s. And they were specifically created to block a grassroots populist like Bernie Sanders.
Like I said before, if you think the Electoral College was wrong in 2016, if you’re going to be consistent then you should also think superdelegates are wrong. The purpose of both is to negate the principle of “one person one vote”. They are both undemocratic and undermine the will of the people.
But yeah, screw me once shame on you, screw me twice and I might do something you really do not want me to.
So that’s the risk the DNC is running with a brokered convention. It’s not gon work out the way they think it will.
Anyway, this is one of those, “let’s wait and see what happens” scenarios.
A superdelegate's vote; a shadow of power
Cast wide across the face of democracy
The working class struggle to seize their hour
From the miserly grip of an entitled plutocracy
The powerful demand an implicit supremacy
For weighted say and greater sway
To define their will as equivalent to destiny
Subverting the people's will to get their way
A dangerous game too routinely played
Not small in scope of consequence
For the longer that justice remains delayed
The more the rebel spirit will rise in confluence
With the rising tide of class consciousness
The seed of discontent prepares to bloom
Should elites act with too much confidence
Their institution will soon meet its doom
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If the convention goes to a second round, then the Superdelegates get to vote. If they do deny Bernie the nomination they will be handing Trump a second term on a silver platter.
Also, if they do, it will be time for the left to walk out (#demexit) and either start a new party to replace the Democrats or join an already established third party like the Greens.
In a two party system there is no room for the Democrats if they are not a true opposition to the Republicans. There is no room for the Democratic Party if it serves the same wealthy oligarchs the Republican Party serves.
So all the “Justice Democrats” and progressive Democrats should give up on that putrid, corrupt, dead donkey if the Democratic Party cheats Bernie Sanders again!
The South Bend mayor has been calling party insiders and stopping in delegate heavy districts. On Monday, his campaign hosted a conference call for them. It’s all part of a plan.
From the August 5, 2019 article:
The South Bend mayor’s team held a conference call with a group of so-called superdelegates on Monday to ask them for their support, according to an invite obtained by The Daily Beast. It was just the latest sign that the mayor’s aides are still playing catch up against competitors such as former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been cultivating relationships with party insiders for nearly 40 years. But it also signals that—for all the focus on the early voting states—Buttigieg's team sees a convention floor fight as a possible path towards securing the party’s nomination.
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The courting of superdelegates has taken place during every modern Democratic presidential campaign. But after the Democratic National Committee instituted a rules reform package at their 2018 summer meeting, the significance of those party insiders was supposed to have lessened. Responding to complaints from supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders—who had decried a “rigged” primary in 2016—the DNC made it so that superdelegates could no longer vote on the party’s first presidential primary ballot.
But the reforms still allowed the 769 superdelegates to vote if the convention was contested. And with a historically crowded field running for the party’s nomination, the possibility of a contested-convention has become more likely, prompting campaigns to accelerate their courtship of superdelegates.
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According to elected DNC members who have been courted by other campaigns, Buttigieg’s overtures have been more personalized. “This is a little bit different—it’s actual hands-on content,” said Alma Gonzalez, of Tampa, Florida’s only Hispanic elected member of the DNC, who remains uncommitted to a candidate.
Gonzalez, who was invited to the call but wasn’t able to attend, said Buttigieg’s efforts are further along than those being conducted by former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX).
“He’s taking the right step by trying to engage DNC members this early,” she said. “When you’re looking at the number of candidates we have right now, that may end up becoming something really important. When I have this level of engagement from a candidate, it’s an indication to a certain level that that candidate is thinking strategically.”
