Harry Reid says Sanders needs more than plurality to win Democratic nomination

[RandySF]

LAS VEGAS — Former Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid said Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or any presidential candidate should not get the Democratic nomination if they end the primary process in first place but are shy of the requisite majority of delegates.

Reid (D-Nev.) dismissed suggestions from Sanders and his supporters that he should become the nominee if he finishes with a plurality lead ahead of the rest of the candidates but short of the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the nomination outright. Reid even suggested that a group of moderate candidates, trailing Sanders overall, could assemble a coalition ahead of the Democratic convention in July in Milwaukee to hand the nomination to someone else.

“Here is how I feel about this: I do not think that anybody — Bernie Sanders or anyone else — should simply get the nomination because they have 30 percent of the delegates and no one else has that many,” Reid said in an interview in his office at the Bellagio, where he has a post with the MGM Resorts Public Policy Institute. “Let’s say that he has 35 percent. Well, 65 percent he doesn’t have, or that person doesn’t have. I think that we have to let the system work its way out. I do not believe anyone should get the nomination unless they have 50-[percent]-plus-one.”

Some political statisticians have suggested in recent days that with the more moderate lane clogged with at least four candidates, Sanders would continue to collect the most delegates through the March 3 Super Tuesday primaries and emerge in such a strong position that no one would be able catch him.
Bernie Sanders wanted superdelegates to overrule voters in 2016. Now he's changed his mind.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/harry-reid-says-sanders-needs-more-than-plurality-to-win-democratic-nomination/2020/02/20/05b0cc14-543d-11ea-9e47-59804be1dcfb_story.html

[msongs]

1. look out, Harry Reid understands math lol nt

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Harry knows of what he speaks.

Still say Brokered Convention.