Democrats weaken influence of convention superdelegates
by Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune
Aug 25, 2018
2 minutes
CHICAGO - The Democratic National Committee ended its summer meeting in Chicago Saturday, embracing a plan borne of Bernie Sanders' 2016 White House campaign that reduces the influence of superdelegates in presidential nomination fights starting in 2020.
The rule change prevents party leaders and elected officials - who in the past have become unpledged, unelected superdelegates to
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