Bernie’s Blue Dog backer: Sanders gains the support of an unlikely superdelegate [View all]
Source: Salon
“I think the super delegates are going to have make a very difficult decision and that is, if a candidate wins in a state by 40 or 50 points, who are you going to give your vote to?” Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asked over the weekend after winning three Western states by upwards of 40 to 70 points.... On Saturday, a most unlikely Sanders supporter appeared to agree with that sentiment, pledging his superdelegate vote in favor of Sanders as his home state of Minnesota had recently done. Rep. Collin Peterson told Forum News Service that his superdelegate vote will reflect the will of voters in his state who voted for Sanders 62 percent to 38 percent for Clinton.
“I’m voting my district,” Peterson said. “I’m going to vote for Bernie.”
While the founding member of Democrat’s Blue Dog Coalition, formed to promote fiscal conservatism, rarely attends the DNC, he said that if his superdelegate vote would make a difference, he would make the trip to Philadelphia to cast a vote for the Democratic Socialist despite their obvious differences on tax policy. “He’s got something going,” Peterson said of Sanders’s support with young voters. “He’s tapped into something.”
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/28/bernies_blue_dog_backer_sanders_gains_the_support_of_an_unlikely_superdelegate/
That was unexpected.
Cheers to Rep. Collin Peterson for honoring his constituents.
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