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Originally Posted by Austin Ellen
Interesting. I would think it would be Bernie Sanders as he kept all his delegates even though he withdrew from the race. Can they pick someone like Andrew Cuomo?
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Sanders will have the 2nd most delegates at the convention but I think that is meaningless, but I don't pretend to know how the conventions work in detail.
"According to U.S. primary rules, a given candidate must secure more than half of the available pledged delegates — local officials who vow to represent the candidate at the party’s convention — in order to become the presumptive nominee. In order to win the Democratic party’s nomination in 2020, that means a candidate will need to win 1,991 delegates.
But the prospect of a brokered convention largely hinges on what happens if no one clears that 1,991 benchmark. If one candidate is just below the threshold, they will likely call for the party to unify under one banner rather than contest the nomination. But if two candidates are jockeying for the top spot and no one winner seems clear, chaos will ensue.
In a brokered convention scenario, a big responsibility falls to what’s known as “superdelegates” — a group of party leaders and elected officials from each state who can support any candidate they choose at the convention, and are not bound by the results of any one primary. For context, there hasn't been a brokered convention scenario for Democrats since 1932, the year Franklin D. Roosevelt went on to win the general election."
So if Biden drops out, the convention can choose whomever they think is best for the party.