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Under party rules, automatic delegates shall "legally reside in their respective state and ... shall be recognized as part of their state's delegation" (Rule 9.E). [7] For example, in the 2008 convention, former Maine Governor Kenneth M. Curtis was a superdelegate (by virtue of his position as a past DNC chair), but because he had moved to Florida in 2006, he was counted as part of the Florida ...
This list tracks the presumed support (based on endorsements) for given United States presidential candidates among the 775 unpledged delegates (commonly known as superdelegates, and referred to in the 2020 election cycle as "automatic delegates" [1]) who were eligible to cast a vote at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Democratic Party uses pledged delegates and unpledged delegates (generally known as superdelegates or sometimes as automatic delegates), a combined system which had been introduced in 1984. Between 1984 and 2016, a candidate for the Democratic nomination had to win a majority of combined delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention, where Hillary Clinton (at podium, left) became the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the United States. The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party.
The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to significantly curtail the power of superdelegates.
This is a list of Democratic party unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates or automatic delegates, [1] who voted in the 2008 Democratic National Convention, the culmination of the party's presidential nominating process that began with the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses.
They're really important people in the Democratic nominating process, but how does the party figure out who gets to be one?
47 Democratic members of the United States Senate (including Washington, DC shadow senators) 21 Democratic governors (including territorial governors and the Mayor of the District of Columbia). Superdelegates are "unpledged" in the sense that they themselves decide which candidate to support.