Sorry, Bernie, but you can’t “contest” the Democratic Convention. Those aren’t the rules.

Senator Sanders has made it abundantly clear that he will not suspend his campaign prior the convention. If it were simply a matter that he truly believed that all voters should have the opportunity to vote for the candidate they prefer and not be denied that chance simply because their primary comes later in the process, that would be one thing. However, Sanders plans to use these last few primaries to boost his argument that he should get the nomination, regardless of the will of the voters.

In a news conference today, Senator Bernie Sanders addressed the fact that he has essentially lost the democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton, by double-talking his way around a plan to flat out subvert the will of the democratic electorate and steal the nomination at the convention. This is simply unprecedented for a candidate to lose by over three-million votes and insist he should be declared the winner.

First things first; Sanders seems to think that because Hillary Clinton will not have the “magic number” in pledged delegates alone, that this makes the July DNC “contested.” This shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the process. The correct term Sanders should be using is “brokered”, however terminology aside, it still will not apply to the convention. A convention becomes brokered only if a candidate fails to secure a majority of overall delegates after the first ballot, this includes ALL delegates including the super delegates. Sanders appears to be operating under the misguided idea that the first ballot is pledged delegates only and that therefore Secretary Clinton will not have the required majority. However, as the first ballot will include all delegates, Secretary Clinton will have a majority and there will be nothing to “contest” or broker.

While Senator Sanders continues to talk about “flipping” the super delegates to his side, this is extremely unlikely. His argument is that if he carried a state by a significant margin then those super delegates should support him. However, when examining the super delegate breakdown, even if he were to flip the delegates from the states he has carried by large margins prior to the first ballot, he would come nowhere near the majority he would need because those states by and large were much smaller states, with an insignificant number of super delegates. The states that Secretary Clinton carried by extremely large margins have much higher super delegate counts. In fact, Sanders would end up with only about 200 of the 700 super delegates, leaving Hillary with roughly what she has now and the clear majority in both pledged and super delegates. He also seems to think that even if he loses a state, the delegates should still support him for coming close, saying that if he “does well” in California (even if he loses), that should be enough for them to flip.

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