Democratic Party Elites Are Ready to Steal the Nomination From Bernie Sanders. We Need a Plan to Stop Them.

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"Senator Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. This moment is the culmination of four years of historic progress for socialists, including the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress and dozens of socialists to state and local offices, and the mainstreaming of radical demands, from Medicare for All to abolishing ICE. Most of these electoral victories have followed Sanders’s own strategy of challenging establishment Democrats on the Democratic ballot line, much to the frustration of party elites.
Sanders might be on track to win the Democratic nomination outright, or he may yet lose to an establishment Democrat, but socialists and Bernie supporters must prepare ourselves for the very real possibility that party elites will try to steal the nomination from him, even if he has a decisive delegate lead over his rivals. This intent was made plain at Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate when every single candidate on stage with the exception of Sanders refused to say that the candidate with the most delegates should win.
If Sanders goes to the convention with a plurality (as of this writing Five Thirty Eight predicts a 41 percent chance of a contested convention), the nomination vote will go to a second round, when the portion of the 3,979 convention delegates who are pledged to other candidates will be freed to horse-trade with each other, and the 771 superdelegates will also be able to vote. While the Democratic establishment has no avenue to overturn a socialist victory in a congressional primary, at the DNC, an alliance of delegates from other candidates and superdelegates could hand the nomination to an alternative candidate. . ."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/02/democratic-party-national-convention-superdelegates-sanders-debate

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