As Democrats face the possibility that their national convention will open this summer without one of its presidential candidates having won a majority of delegates, half of Democratic voters think the eventual nominee should be required to reach that threshold.
That’s according to the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, which found 49 percent of voters at odds with the stance of one of the frontrunners, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has warned against the party’s superdelegates overriding “the will of the voters” at a contested convention.
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Just over a quarter of Democratic voters, 27 percent, agree with Sanders’ position that a candidate should not necessarily need to clear the 1,991-delegate threshold to secure the nomination.
Talk of a contested convention creeps into nearly every presidential nominating cycle at some point, though it hasn’t happened in the modern primary era. But Tuesday’s slate of more than a dozen primaries — which, when all votes are accounted for, will have parceled out a third of all pledged delegates — initially did little to dispatch worries about the prospect of a contested convention.
With former Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York ending his bid Wednesday morning and Sen. Elizabeth Warren considering dropping out as well, the chances that neither Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden will reach 1,991 delegates has shrunk.
Source: Poll: Democrats say majority of delegates should be needed for nomination
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