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My post this morning was submitted before Bloomberg withdrew and endorsed Biden. I don’t know when the moderators approved and posted, as I was in court today from 10:15 on.

Sanders has previously said he would support the Democratic nominee, he won;t run as a third party candidate.

Brokered conventions were the norm for more than 100 years. Having a candidate with enough delegates for the nomination on the first ballot was unusual (unless an incumbent running for reelection).

It does not mean a party cannot get along, rather that they came to choose a candidate who garnered the needed number of delegates.

State delegates to the National Convention (and I have been one) are only pledge to a specific candidate for the first ballot. Then the horse trading begins