A top aide to Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE’s (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign is circulating a letter to top Democrats, asking them to back an effort to remove superdelegates from the Democratic primary nomination system, BuzzFeed News reports.
Jeff Weaver, who managed Sanders’s campaign and went on to briefly run his spinoff group Our Revolution, is in talks with members of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE’s 2016 campaign to build support for the petition. It urges the DNC to rely solely on delegates that follow the will of Democratic primary voters in determining the nomination.
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Weaver also plans to approach top Democrats in Congress about the issue, including House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiTrump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names Black lawmakers unveil bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Pelosi: Georgia primary ‘disgrace’ could preview an election debacle in November MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerOvernight Health Care: US showing signs of retreat in battle against COVID-19 | Regeneron begins clinical trials of potential coronavirus antibody treatment | CMS warns nursing homes against seizing residents’ stimulus checks Schumer requests briefing with White House coronavirus task force as cases rise Schumer on Trump’s tweet about 75-year-old protester: He ‘should go back to hiding in the bunker’ MORE (D-N.Y.), according to BuzzFeed.
“We believe that the passage of these reforms is a fundamental and necessary step in re-establishing faith with those who have lost confidence in the Party as a vehicle for change,” reads the draft of the letter, obtained by BuzzFeed. “Now is the time to go forward, not backward.”
Weaver declined to comment on the letter to BuzzFeed, and a spokesperson for Clinton also declined to comment when asked whether the former Democratic nominee would join Sanders’s push.
The letter follows negotiations on the Democrats’ Unity Reform Commission, which was formed after the 2016 election with the aim of rebuilding the Democratic Party. One of its proposals is to cut superdelegates by about 60 percent and strip them of their votes during the first round of voting at the Democratic convention.
DNC members remain divided on the issue, and haven’t moved to act on the Unity Reform Commission’s proposals.
The approximately 700 superdelegates can back the candidate of their choosing regardless of how their state’s Democratic voters went in the primary.
Some DNC officials say the superdelegates, who swung strongly for Clinton in some cases against the will of primary voters in their state, are a safeguard against candidates like President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE, who won the GOP nomination despite heavy opposition from mainstream Republicans.
“This whole idea runs completely counter to where the public is,” DNC Rules and Bylaws member Elaine Kamarck told BuzzFeed. “However, if the Trump presidency crashes and burns and takes the GOP with it, which is not unrealistic, this dialogue will start.”
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