Labor leader: DNC should not change rules to help Bernie Sanders avoid a contested convention
“We can’t change it. We can’t change it. We’ve got to live with the process, and I believe that there were improvements in that process,” Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees , told Yahoo News.
“The person who has the most votes should become the nominee,” Sanders said at a debate. He insinuated that if superdelegates were to play a role, it would contradict “the will of the people.” Saunders was a strong supporter of eliminating superdelegates from the first ballot at the convention, giving candidates the opportunity to win the nomination solely with delegates earned through votes in primaries and caucuses.
Sanders made a push after the 2016 campaign for this superdelegate change, and one of his top advisers, Jeff Weaver, attended most of the Rules and Bylaws meetings and worked with committee members on their changes. Biden’s landslide victory in South Carolina on Saturday night pulled him close to Sanders in the delegate battle. But Sanders is expected to have a big delegate haul in just two days, when 14 states and one territory hold primaries and 1,357 delegates are in play. After Tuesday, about 37 percent of the delegates will have been awarded, and the state of the race will be clearer.
Hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out of the race Saturday night after failing to win any delegates in South Carolina, and there was pressure on others to do the same.
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