http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/289079-sanders-delegates-threaten-challenge-to-kaineJuly 25, 2016, 11:18 am
Sanders delegates threaten challenge to Kaine
By Jordain Carney
PHILADELPHIA — A group of Democratic delegates backing Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) said Monday that they are actively exploring a challenge to Sen. Tim Kaine’s (Va.) vice presidential nomination.
"There's serious interest right now and exploration as we speak of a formal challenge with an alternative candidate," Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate and national coordinator of the Bernie Delegates Network.
The group, which is independent of the Sanders campaign, said it was actively polling its members, which include 1,250 of Sanders’s 1,894 delegates.
The group released a poll earlier this month that found that less than 3 percent of its supporters found Kaine acceptable.
Solomon said he hoped the DNC release information within hours on how to submit a challenger to Kaine, which he said would require the signature of 300 delegates.
