Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued a brokered convention to determine the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee would end up putting the eventual pick at a disadvantage.
“I hope just for the sake of the party overall that this does not get to a brokered convention,” the New York Democrat, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s White House campaign, told CNN on Wednesday. “I think that hurts the nominee, whoever the nominee is.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden surged past Sanders in delegates after his 10 wins on Super Tuesday. As of Thursday morning, Biden had 565 delegates compared to Sanders’s 506, according to NBC News. Candidates need a total of 1,991 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
Sanders told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday that he would drop out if Biden won a plurality of pledged delegates at the Democratic convention in July.
“If Biden walks into the convention, or at the end of the process, has more votes than me, he’s the winner,” Sanders said.
He added that if a second ballot were required, which would include automatic delegates, previously known as superdelegates, that “it would be a real, real disaster for the Democratic Party.”
“People would say, ‘The person who won the most votes didn’t get selected.’ Not a good idea,” he said.
