Indivisible is asking candidates to commit to a unity pledge, following a new public rift between Bernie Sanders campaign and Democratic establishment figures.
that would rather see his campaign fail. His top advisers, meanwhile, have said that, in a large field with multiple top-tier candidates, they believe they can win the nomination with just a third of the vote, setting up the possibility of a contentious convention with multiple rounds of voting by party delegates.
“Last time you had to get 50 plus 1 to win, and we started at zero,” said Ben Tulchin, who handles polling for the Sanders campaign, in an earlier this week. “Now we need basically about a third to win. And others have a lot farther to go than us to get to that third.”to the Center for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank founded by Clinton’s former campaign chair, John Podesta.
At the start of the race, the Democratic National Committee asked every candidate to sign its own pledge, which asked presidential contenders to self-identify as members of the Democratic Party, to “run as a Democrat,” and “serve as a Democrat if elected” to the White House.
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