Hillary Clinton may plan to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan to the party’s August convention, but not if Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has anything to say about it.
She vowed, “I will step in.”
The Huffington Post is reporting this as new news, but her plans were originally announced in April, in the video below. Pelosi had a few contradictory moments, stating “The election has to run it’s course” and seconds later, “One of them will have to realize the numbers and step aside.”
In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Pelosi said the Democratic superdelegates should not overturn the pledged delegate winner, saying there will be irreparable harm. Barack Obama officially won the majority of pledged delegates last week. CNN reports:
Pelosi also indicated she opposes the Clinton campaign’s desire that both Florida and Michigan’s delegations be fully seated at the convention. The party stripped both states of their entire delegations last year after they moved their presidential primaries ahead in the nominating calendar.
Pelosi said she agreed the two states should be seated in some way, but said only “in a way that is not destructive to any sense of order in the party.”
Pelosi formerly backed Sen. Hillary Clinton, but vowed to endorse the candidate who wins the most pledged delegates. She hasn’t hinted about how she will step in, but it’ll be interesting to see if her threat has any grounding with the Democrats.
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