ELECTION 2020

[HairOfTheDog]

This is the first I'm hearing of it. 

The same issue came up in 2016.

After the 2016 election, the DNC deemed complaints by Sanders as being legitimate and changed the superdelegate rules so that they don't have any voting power unless none of the candidates have 1,991 delegates going into the Democratic convention.

Hopefully, one of the candidates will reach that threshold and there won't be a contested convention.  But, if that doesn't happen, the superdelegates (people with political clout/power in the Democratic party) can overrule the will of the people and take the nomination away from whichever candidate ends up with the plurality of votes.

So, technically, for example, if Bernie earns 1,990 delegates in the primaries and caucuses and the other remaining candidates earn significantly less, Bernie could still lose the nomination at the Democratic convention by vote of the Democratic establishment.

I don't think there should be superdelegates, period.  Let the people decide.  However, since Bernie Sanders motivated and agreed to the rule change after 2016, he doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when he complains about the current rules, in my opinion.