Posted on 03/01/2020 8:16:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he would contest the presidential primary nomination at the Democratic convention if Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading in delegates without securing a majority.
“The rules have been set,” Biden said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Biden questioned Sanders’ take that the candidate with a plurality of pledged delegates the convention should become the nominee.
“I wonder where that view was when he was challenging Hillary when she went in with a commanding lead,” Biden added. “You don't change the rules in the middle of the game.”
Sanders is the only candidate in the field this year to insist that the candidate with the most pledged delegates should be the party nominee. He held the opposing view in 2016 when facing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Biden’s commitment to challenge the nomination comes after he won his first primary in South Carolina on Saturday.
Biden is trailing Sanders in the number of pledged delegates as the candidates head into Super Tuesday, when the largest number of states will hold primaries and caucuses including Texas and California.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Is Biden prepared to accept the results of the Convention?
I was encouraged when Sanders publicly stated his opposition to the rules regarding delegates (that a majority was needed); it let me know that he understood he probably wouldn’t win over the Democratic Party itself, and as an extension of that, he should have a hard time winning a national election.
I don’t think our opponent has appeared. I think they want a contested convention so that the Super-delegates can name the nominee. Bernie may not like it, but I think that’s the way it’s going to go.
C’mon, just give bernie a house on a lake somewhere around Franconia, and he’ll be fine with dropping out
stocking up on popcorn
The irony has me cracking up in laughter.
I’ll take: “Things Candidates Say When They Are Losing” for $1000, Alex.
Creepy Joe is morphing into a real life version of Grampa Simpson
Like when you start out using the Electoral College, but then want to switch to the popular vote, cuz you LOST?
Like that?
Biden is actually right about that. Let the process play out, ballot after ballot if necessary. The problem is with the superdelegates. They are not elected delegates. Yet they get to vote at the convention. That is about as undemocratic as it gets.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
Run, Bernie, Run !
A bully like Biden does not adhere to any rules.
That could very well take place.....especially if Biden can hold his own as others drop out.
I still think Bloomsbergs Bidens crutch to a large extent....despite all the cash he’s spending to promote himself....he’ll be the pick up if Biden can’t make it to the end for health reasons.
On August 25, 2018, the Democratic National Committee agreed to reduce the influence of superdelegates by generally preventing them from voting on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention, allowing their votes only in a contested nomination.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate
I think you’re right. The nominee will be a total surprise, I think.
Bernie is not going to be the nominee. The rats are using him to run the narrative that the reasoned centrists have prevailed and they have nominated candidate who will unite and restore calm to the nation and if things go the way they want it to, a candidate who will solve crises the virus has caused.
Biden, like Hillary, want to deny Sanders because he's doing so well.
This is not a democRAT primary nomination campaign.
It's a pull-the-tail-off-the-donkey time again at the DNC instead.
The democRATS don't want Biden to win either. He's dementia toxic.
Of course Bernie wants to win, and of course Biden doesn’t want a rule change. It’s not up to either of them, but the party will submarine Bernie if he doesn’t win a majority.
The interesting part will start if Bernie wins a majority of the delegates.
There is no obligation for a nominating process to be “democratic”.
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