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Of all the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, slightly under 15% are superdelegates. [5] According to the Pew Research Center, superdelegates are "the embodiment of the institutional Democratic Party – everyone from former presidents, congressional leaders and big-money fundraisers to mayors, labor leaders and longtime local party functionaries."
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.
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.
While all delegates will receive ballots, votes cast by superdelegates – roughly 750 senior Democrats who serve as delegates by virtue of their position – will be counted on the first ballot ...
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The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to significantly curtail the power of superdelegates.
Democratic superdelegates are free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination. On August 25, 2018, the Democratic National Committee agreed to reduce the influence of superdelegates by generally preventing them from voting on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention, allowing their votes only in a contested nomination .
Each candidate tries to earn delegates before the party conventions in July. Delegates choose the presidential nominees. A candidate who earns half the party's delegates is the presumptive nominee.