[Cowboy Bob]

Patrice Taylor, the DNC’s director of party affairs & delegate selection, insisted that “the election is not rigged for one candidate or another” while defending the party’s use of “superdelegates” in a Medium post last February.

Can someone in the Democrat Party please explain to me the need for "Super Delegates?"

[SES1066]

Can someone in the Democrat Party please explain to me the need for "Super Delegates?"

Eugene McCarthy - who knocked LBJ out of running as 1968's analogue to Bernie Sanders. In 1972 the Democrat Party Mandarins discovered that George McGovern won their primaries fair and square. So after two non-establishment winners, Super Delegates would keep the hoi-poli forever in line.