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Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:36 AM Jun 2016

Miranda clarifies Super Delegate comments in Fox interview (HRC GROUP)

BYE BYE BERNIE? CLINTON SET TO WIN NOMINATION AS SUPERDELEGATES TO BE COUNTED ON TUESDAY


"A Democratic Party official has changed his tune on whether superdelegate support should be counted on election night much to the chagrin of Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t want Tuesday night to turn into an ‘anointment’ of Hillary Clinton .

In April, DNC Communication Director Luis Miranda said, ‘the superdelegates should not be included in any count on a primary or caucus night ,’ a quote Sanders repeated yesterday to stall Clinton from claiming the nomination.

But today Miranda appeared on Fox News and said, ‘the point I was making at that time is you have to count them separately,’ he stated, ‘that could wrongly have the effect that the delegate totals aren’t matching the percentage of the vote totals in the state.’

Counting how superdelegates plan to vote at the convention, however, looked to be fine which means Clinton could be called the Democrats’ presumptive nominee after Tuesday’s set of primaries..."

More at Link:
http://mnfaindia.com/bye-bye-bernie-clinton-set-to-win-nomination-as-superdelegates-to-be-counted-on-tuesday/

FOX Video:

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Cha

(305,447 posts)
1. "anointment" ashconointment.. BS is the one who wants to be anointed by begging the SuperD's
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:52 AM
Jun 2016

to switch to him in spite of the Majority of Votes and Delegates going for Hillary.

He and jane just use their damn buzzwords to get their fams all upset when he keeps losing.

So this is all going ahead no matter how much sanders whines?

As far as I can tell there's nothing to contest. He lost.. what part doesn't he get?

Mahalo, Lucinda.

Koinos

(2,798 posts)
2. Bernie will sue the Democratic party for not letting him win.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 04:46 AM
Jun 2016

And the judge will find him contemptible.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
6. He'll be thrown out of court on his ass...I hope he tries. What a fitting end to a dying campaign.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 07:44 AM
Jun 2016

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. Hillary will still get the required pledged delegates on Tuesday.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 05:51 AM
Jun 2016

Counting them separately will mean the presumptive Democratic nominee will need 2026 pledged delegates and Hillary will be over this number of PD on Tuesday, reality, no matter how it is played.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
4. Basically he was just saying that he had said not to lump the supers in the totals when they were
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:31 AM
Jun 2016

reporting primary and caucus results because it confused people. So if a state had 10 delegates don't show 15 won by lumping the 5 supers into the total for that primary.

He never intended to say that the supers didn't count for securing the nomination. So it will work the same as it always does.

DLCWIdem

(1,580 posts)
9. Fox and others were lumping them together
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:38 PM
Jun 2016

Fox was lumping them together because they wanted to hide the fact that HILL was actually way far ahead in pledged delegates. They wanted to continue the narrative that it was rigged by the SD's, but she is far ahead in pledged delegates 55%. MJ from MSNBC tried it too. It looks like now they are pushing the narrative that it's rigged because she started out with Super delegate support.

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