Super delegates make up about 15 percent of the Democrat delegates who choose the party’s nominee. In 2016 they overwhelming pledged their support early for the eventual nominee Hillary Clinton. That support was reflected in media reports on the contest between Bernie Sanders and Clinton, padding her lead and adding a sense of inevitability to her candidacy.
Tuesday on NBC’s “Nightly News,” Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took aim at the Associated Press for how it handled declaring his opponent Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee on the eve of the last round of Democratic presidential
Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told host Chris Cuomo that she anticipates her party will have “presumptive nominee” headed into this summer’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with the necessary delegates to have
Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his state’s upcoming presidential primary and how disenfranchised Bernie Sanders supporters might sit out the November general election. Duffy, whose district covers the
A former press secretary for the Democratic National Committee slammed the party’s convention rules, which may allow Hillary Clinton to win the presidential nomination even if Sen. Bernie Sanders wins more grassroots delegates.
Sanders should have the momentum to sweep California and five other primaries on June 7 to pass Clinton in the delegate race and seize the party’s nomination from her grasp.
The Bernie Sanders insurgency ground to a halt on Super Tuesday.
