ELECTION 2020

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think there should be super delegates either,  especially after what happened in 2016,  but I have a question for you,  HOTD,  say Bernie does come in just under,  and the super delegates give the nomination to someone else  ( I'm thinking either Warren or Biden)  do you think that it'll cause the majority of Democrats in this country to try and write in Bernie, effectively causing a split in the democratic vote?  

Bernie tried to make sure his followers supported Hillary in 2016, but I'm not sure if he's going to be able to get them to support whoever the super delegates choose this time around.

I don't know cannongal.

I remember Bernie and Trump were in similar positions as Bernie is today during the 2016 election cycle......... in terms of beating their competitors in some early primaries and caucuses, losing in others, and in both cases splitting votes/delegates from state to state with their competitors. 

There was a lot of talk about contested Republican and Democratic conventions at this point in 2016 too, but neither party's convention ended up being contested. 

After winning in early primary/caucus states this year, Bernie could wind up losing too many big-delegates states and being overtaken by one of the other candidates running under the Democrat umbrella -- same as in 2016. 

In that case, I think he would do everything he could to get his supporters to vote for the Democratic nominee again, like he did for Hillary Clinton (who is still bitching that Bernie didn't do enough for her and 'nobody in government likes Bernie').  

Or, he could get to the convention with a clear plurality but not a majority of delegates, and the Democratic party's superdelegates and brokers could decide that denying Bernie the nomination would be more problematic for the party and the country than green-lighting his nomination (similar to what the Republican establishment relented and did with Trump in 2016).