Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi issued a warning to favorite Democratic primaries Bernie Sanders on Thursday, insisting that a candidate must win an absolute majority to win the party’s nomination and challenge Donald Trump. After his good results in the first three states that voted, the independent senator is, at 78, in an excellent position in the race for the democratic nomination to represent the party during the American presidential election in November.
But there is still a long way to go until the Democratic Convention in July, where, according to party rules, a candidate will have to display an absolute majority of delegates to declare themselves the winner in a first round, and not a simple majority.
“The person who will be appointed will be the person who will have a majority plus one,” said the powerful leader of the Democrats in Congress, Nancy Pelosi, at a press conference.
If she hammered that the leitmotif of the party was “rally, rally, rally” behind the one who will be chosen by the Democratic party to run for the White House, her words directly contradict Bernie Sanders.
The latter said that the candidate “with the most votes” should be chosen to wear the democratic colors. “The will of the people should prevail, yes”, he replied during a democratic debate on February 19, while his five rivals on the plateau defended party rules, including the obligation to obtain an absolute majority.
There are 3,979 delegates who are “assigned” to the different candidates according to their results in the primaries. If no one got a majority in the first round (1,991 votes), these delegates would become free to vote for someone else. And some 770 “superdelegates”, notables and elected members of the party deprived of voting in the first round, would enter the track, with the power to topple the ballot.
The moderate rivals of Bernie Sanders, who is too left in their eyes, say that his victory in the primaries would lead to a new term of Donald Trump.
The United States, a “big country,” is tough enough “to support one term for Donald Trump. But two terms” would pay too high a price, “warned Nancy Pelosi.” It is therefore imperative that we win, and whoever our candidate is, he will have our full support, “she said.
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