Sentences with phrase «superdelegates for»

«Parties should therefore nudge candidates into withdrawing earlier than they currently do by, for example, awarding the two leading candidates after a certain number of contests the same number of additional superdelegates for the convention.

She attended this summer's Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton — something that comes with a committee position.

Not exact matches

Clinton can secure enough delegates for the nomination next week even without winning California, thanks to the superdelegates who have already pledged to support her.

First, by knowing who is or is not a party leader (surrogate and / or superdelegate), the app will necessitate and provide some persistent, minimal, centralized, official technical structure for a surrogate program — something the party often appears not to have.

The app should have a special interface for party surrogates and superdelegates, by which they can vote each day as to which of the available talking points are better.

In New York, superdelegates are saying they'll vote for Hillary even if Sanders wins the states April 19th primary.

It collects the contact information for the Democratic superdelegates, including web forms for those congressmembers who don't accept direct emails, with details being entered by volunteers.

That's how she had such a huge superdelegate lead on day one... she bought support from 33 state democratic parties in return for the cash.

Raising money for down - ballot candidates and party committees also helps ensure goodwill with party insiders — many of who are DNC superdelegates backing Clinton by big margins.

Former Presidents also tend to retain significant influence within their political party (e.g. as superdelegates to their party's convention for Democrats).

More fun on the grassroots front: as has been reported, Sanders supporters have been publicly posting contact information for Democratic superdelegates and encouraging people to help «persuade» them to endorse the Vermont senator.

For that reason, the Democratic National Committee has echoed the Sanders campaign, saying the superdelegates should not be counted until they vote at the convention in Philadelphia.

And it's curious, because they will be superdelegates in a scenario in which he's running for president.

According to popular vote or pledged delegate count (not counting superdelegates); see below for detail.

But the source noted that all New York Members will be superdelegates to the 2016 Democratic convention and «what New York Member is not going to be for Cuomo?»

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.

If the Democratic superdelegates continue to support Hillary after Bernie wins a majority of the voter's choice delegates, the Democratic elite will have created a mathematically impossible path for the party in November.

(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.»

If you click on New York, for example, you can see at a glance where the pressure points are: Representatives Gregory Meeks, Yvette Clarke and Edolphus Towns are all superdelegates and are all pledged to their home - state senator, Hillary Clinton — even though their districts all voted for Senator Barack Obama.

At the time, there were no known superdelegates from Connecticut supporting Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination.

According to Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the DNC, party chairman Howard Dean would select this new superdelegate.

U.S. congressman Gregory Meeks, of Queens, for instance, also has dual superdelegate status (without, apparently, feeling overwhelmed), and there's no guarantee that Dean would choose another Clinton supporter.

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