Democratic Primaries

BidenBacker

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7. Joe will likely pick up more delegates before the first ballot

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:19 AM

Mar 2020

from others who were in the race. Klobuchar, Buttigieg & Bloomberg have around 75 between them and Biden may also get some of Warren's 60 too.

Rules are a little complicated for that depending on whether or not a candidate has ended their campaign or merely "suspended" it which you can find online but with those 3 already having endorsed Biden they'll figure out a way to release them and hand off to Joe just in case he needs them because the virus royally screwed up the rest of the primary season. Hopefully Joe will have enough delegates on his own to win it outright on the first ballot without needing any superdelegates or those from others.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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why isn't he getting all the delegations for each state? [View all] demtenjeep Mar 2020 OP

It's proportional. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

This isn't true, either Aquaria Mar 2020 #6

Nevertheless, most delegates are allocated proportionally in all 50 states. MineralMan Mar 2020 #9

No, its a proportional system. Firebrand Gary Mar 2020 #2

See "candidate threshold"... PoliticAverse Mar 2020 #3

In my state (CA) a portion of the delegates are divided proportionally based on total state vote, RockRaven Mar 2020 #4

The delegates aren't winner-take-all Aquaria Mar 2020 #5

Joe will likely pick up more delegates before the first ballot BidenBacker Mar 2020 #7

GOPers have a winner-take-all system. BlueMTexpat Mar 2020 #8

The Democratic Party awards delegated proportionally, Blue_true Mar 2020 #10