This video explains the Democratic superdelegates, who they are, and the difference between superdelegates vs regular delegates ...

Automatic delegates, better known as superdelegates, are delegates that serve on the DNC or are current or former elected officials. There are 739 automatic delegates, according to NBC.

However, superdelegates become irrelevant if either Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden secures a majority of primary delegate votes — 1,991 — before the July convention.

Superdelegates, also known as automatic delegates, are different from the delegates on the line in the primaries in a number of ways. First off, while the delegates up for grabs in the primary ...

However, superdelegates become irrelevant if either Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden secures a majority of primary delegate votes — 1,991 — before the July convention.

In 2016, Sanders’s fans argued superdelegates cost him the nomination. This time, he might need them.

Nearly 90% of superdelegates interviewed by The New York Times said they are willing to block Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at the convention if he fails to win a majority of delegates, even if such ...

The superdelegates have been around for 36 years. They were brought into existence in 1982 to both give party leaders some control over the nomination and help avoid a deadlocked convention floor ...

And the superdelegates aren’t the infamous “smoke-filled room” full of “old white men” deciding the fate of everybody else. But let me tell you something — it was once close to being that.

Some superdelegates who originally backed Hillary Clinton flipped to Barack Obama in the latter stages of the 2008 Democratic primary, for example, once it became clear that he would win the most ...

Superdelegates are the party’s most high-profile members and include governors, members of Congress, mayors and others, and represent 15 percent of the overall delegate count.