The campaign manager for Sen. Sanders (I-VT) argued in a Tuesday interview on CNN’s “New Day” that there was a path for his candidate to secure the Democratic nomination during the party’s July convention in Philadelphia.
“I think what this campaign is looking for and what the senator is looking for is going into the convention and coming out with the nomination,” Jeff Weaver told host Chris Cuomo.
“When we arrive at the convention, it will be an open convention, likely with neither candidate having a majority of pledged delegates,” Weaver added.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign dismisses such speculation as unrealistic.
In a memo published on Medium on Monday evening, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggested that Sanders’ strategy “relies on overturning the will of the voters,” arguing that Clinton has won a higher percentage of the popular vote and a majority of pledged delegates.
Contrary to Weaver’s suggestion that neither Sanders nor Clinton would head to Philadelphia with the 2,383 pledged delegates necessary to automatically earn the nomination, Mook called Clinton’s lead “nearly insurmountable.”
Of the 1,712 delegates currently supporting Clinton, 1,243 are pledged and 469 are superdelegates who are free to change their vote to support Sanders if they wish, per the Associated Press’ delegate tracker. Sanders has 1,011 delegates, 980 of which are pledged and 31 of which are supedelegates.
Superdelegates do not vote until the convention.
Wow, this really smells of an overt attempt to blur the GOP storyline with that of the Democrats in an effort to minimize damage to the already brain-dead GOP and harm any Democratic nominee…
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggested that Sanders’ strategy “relies on overturning the will of the voters,” arguing that Clinton has won a higher percentage of the popular vote and a majority of pledged delegates.
Kasich said an open convention would be fun and now everyone wants one!
But seriously, this is tiresome. What are the chances each candidate could get to the nomination without needing any superdelegates?
And I hope to win the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania 33, but it ain’t gunna happen.
Sort of depressing to hear that the losing candidate for the nomination is going to try to rig the system for him to win at the Convention even though he will not have won a majority or plurality of the popular vote or pledged delegates.