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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Hillary will have the magic number with supers by the time the New Jersey results come in on Tuesday. So for Bernie it's all about trying to flip superdelegates, but we all know the odds there are astronomically low, if not straight up impossible. So maybe it's time for #BernieOrBust to try and switch to #IndictmentOrBust, but then again that's what most have been saying since Super Tuesday, that his chances of becoming the nominee are in the hands of a grand jury (that may never be convened). Nevermind the high likelihood of a Biden backdoor happening to prevent Bernie as nominee.
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Originally Posted by T@T
I can see this happening.
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I don't see this happening. When a candidate drops out all pledged delegates are free to "vote of their conscience". You'd have a very hard time convincing
all of these to vote in unison for Biden over Sanders who would have ~2000 odd delegates at that point. Biden will have done no campaigning up to that point either.
Assuming all super delegates vote the same way for Biden despite no longer being bound by Clinton foundation bribery and assuming Clinton and Sanders split the delegates from now till the convention (will probably be more Sanders at this point due to the scandal), you would still need 82% (1839 of 2234) of Clinton's delegates to vote for Biden to clinch the necessary number. I don't see that as likely given cracks are already forming in the establishment given current moves to remove the chair of the DNC so the supers are going to break rank.
Plus doing this will likely result in riots given the rallies already planned outside the DNC. It'll be the 70s all over again.