Democratic Candidates Are Preparing For A Contested Convention — By Courting Superdelegates
Back in February, on a trip to Washington, DC, Cory Booker made time to meet privately with Democratic National Committee members from Georgia — a small but influential group of party officials who, until last year, held key superdelegate votes in the presidential nominating process.
And after helping to strip superdelegates of a significant portion of their power after his first presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders officials are planning to take “superdelegates strategy seriously,” they say, with an outreach program designed to “prepare for multiple convention scenarios” — even as the candidate continues toSuperdelegates — the elected officials, party officers, and activists who have been given a say in the Democratic nominating system since 1982 — were stripped of their...
In the last Democratic primary, superdelegates made up about a third of the 2,382 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. They include elected officials such as members of Congress, “distinguished” party leaders like former presidents and vice presidents, and some 450 members of the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, ranging from state chairs to longtime activists.
Democrats believe, and hope, the scenario is more unlikely than not — even with Sanders promising to eek out a small-margin lead in a historically large Democratic field. The closest analog might be the 1984 Democratic primary, when Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson held enough delegates that Vice President Walter Mondale had to rely on superdelegates to put him over the top.Of the Democratic campaigns thinking about superdelegate outreach, Harris’s has the most organized and tactical operation.
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