Colorado’s Democrat delegates going to the national party convention next month appear committed to sticking with the presidential candidate elected by the state’s voters — Joe Biden.
That’s according to a random and unscientific survey of less than a quarter of those delegates by The Colorado Sun.
Even those who don’t feel strongly about Biden’s candidacy signaled they are willing to go along with their party’s official rule that reads, “All delegates to the National Convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.”
Doing otherwise would be (checks notes) undemocratic. And Democrats these days are all about Democracy.
Not like that time in 2016 when Bernie Sanders won the Democrat primary in Colorado with 41 delegates to 25 delegates for Hillary Clinton.
Then the state’s uncommitted superdelegates used their super powers to hand the win to Hillary.
The Democrat Party changed their rules to prevent that from happening again, so this time superdelegates including all of Colorado’s congressional delegation won’t be allowed to cast ballots in the first round of voting at the convention roll call that will likely determine the nomination.
Of the 213 Democrats in the U.S. House, only 20 have demanded Biden step aside including U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.
Colorado will be sending 87 delegates to the Democrat National Convention in Chicago that begins on Aug. 19, and we are looking forward to the Peaceful Protests™ from their own base.
So Joe just needs to hang on for another month.
If the president still refuses to step aside and release his delegates, the Democrat Party would be obliged to hand him the nomination.
Unless they find another way to upend their own Democratic process.