Re: Chrsit! Trump got creamed! 33 to 3!!!
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Smokey Robinson
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Date: April 06, 2016 12:52AM
Sanders campaign planning for contested convention
Bernie Sanders will surpass Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates and emerge as the nominee at a contested convention, his campaign said Tuesday.
Sanders has vowed to win Wisconsin, New York and, ultimately, the nomination, but his campaign is pushing back on the notion that either state is a must-win. The Vermont senator holds a narrow lead over Clinton in Wisconsin [turned out to be double digits], according to a RealClearPolitics average of state polls, but trails her by 11 percentage points in New York.
“We’ve mapped out a path to victory in our campaign in terms of delegates — pledged delegates — and we don’t have to win everywhere, but we do have to win most of the states coming up,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told MSNBC on Tuesday. “So there’s no one state that’s a must-win, and as we look forward we’re gonna be able to accumulate the delegates we need to get the pledged delegate lead by the end of this primary and caucus process.”
Clinton has a 263-pledged-delegate [249 now after WI] lead over Sanders. But factoring in superdelegates, who are free to support any candidate at the Democratic convention, Clinton’s advantage surges by 438 delegates. The Sanders campaign has maintained that superdelegates should shift their support to match the popular vote and rejected the “funny math” that suggests Sanders can’t win.
“He is winning by these gigantic margins, and that’s gonna allow him to catch up to the secretary,” Weaver said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Weaver said it’s highly unlikely either candidate will garner 2,383 pledged delegates to win the nomination. Superdelegates “don’t count until they vote, and they don’t vote until we get to the convention,” Weaver argued. “So when we arrive at the convention, it will be an open convention, likely with neither candidate having a majority of pledged delegates.
And when that vote happens and Clinton wins despite Bernie having as many or more delegates, then the fires will start... lol