Bernie Sanders leads the polls, but Democratic Party superdelegates won’t commit
by Susan Ferrechio
| February 22, 2020 12:01 AM
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is narrowly leading a pack of Democrats seeking the presidential nomination, lags in support among critical superdelegates who have mostly remained on the sidelines rather than commit to Sanders or any other candidate thanks to the uncertainty of the race.
Superdelegates will play a pivotal role in deciding the party’s presidential nominee if the top candidate fails to win a majority of a separate set of delegates up for grabs in the primaries and caucuses now underway.
The vast majority of superdelegates remain undecided.
Overall, only about 20% of the 771 superdelegates have picked a candidate, signaling a high level of ambivalence about who will ultimately win the nomination.
“Uncertainty in the candidate field tends to keep most superdelegates on the sidelines,†Joshua Putnam, who runs the delegate tracking site Frontloading HQ, told the Washington Examiner. “And this 2020 race has that.â€
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