Sentences with phrase «needs superdelegates»
(CNN)-- An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they're for - and «I need them to say who they're for starting now.»
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Half the 714 superdelegates would be 357, so he'd only need 1198 more delegates.
My personal feeling is that he would need 65 - 70 % of the remaining delegates and roughly a third of the superdelegates.
To be competitive, he needs at least 58 %, but that puts a lot of reliance on his ability to convert superdelegates.
The AP and NBC reported that Clinton reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, and a burst of additional support from superdelegates.
Clinton now has 2,141 delegates (with pledged and superdelegates combined), which means she is 90 percent of the way to the 2,383 delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination, and it's virtually impossible for Sanders to surpass her.
Trump now has 285 delegates, of the 1,237 necessary to clinch the nomination at the convention in Cleveland, while Clinton has 1,001 delegates (457 of which are pre-pledged superdelegates) of the 2,383 she needs to get the nod from her fellow Democrats in Philadelphia.
Obama won a majority of pledged delegates, but needed the support of superdelegates to clinch the nomination.