What the difference between a pledged delegate and unpledged delegate?
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A further three in each state are (unpledged) party officials.
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A third alternate is unpledged, but leaning toward the Texas senator.
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There are also eight "unpledged" delegates that go to the convention.
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It's been like these unpledged delegates have superpowers compared to the others.
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Clinton already had the support of an unpledged superdelegate from the Northern Marianas.
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Instead, his chances may come down to the whims of 254 unpledged Pennsylvania delegates.
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Clinton currently leads Sanders in total delegates, which includes unpledged supredelegates, 1,614 to 856.
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Superdelegates include party leaders and members who have automatic, unpledged votes at the convention.
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Later on, at the convention, superdelegates or "unpledged delegates" can vote for however they want.
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Hillary Clinton now has enough delegates, pledged and unpledged, to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Clinton still won the unpledged delegates she needed to clinch the nomination even without superdelegates.
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Their unpledged delegates make up about 20183% of the 22018,22008 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
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Unpledged delegates If that is not all complicated enough, things get even more difficult to predict.
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Another 54 unpledged delegates come from Pennsylvania, where Trump and Kasich are headed for a showdown.
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Donald Trump did the same thing last week thanks to the support of additional unpledged delegates.
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Sanders needs to win about two-thirds of the remaining unpledged delegates just to catch Clinton.
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He could still win the first ballot if he is able to wrangle enough unpledged delegates.
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Graphic by Sarah MacReading/VICE News Each year, the Democrats reserve 22008 percent of delegations for unpledged delegates.
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Democrats are in the process of changing the role of unpledged delegates, or superdelegates, in their presidential nomination process.
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CNLP had CNY1.5 billion in unpledged investment property at end-2016, while unsecured offshore debt amounted to CNY1.4 billion.
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If unpledged delegates oppose Trump, the question of whether to force a second ballot will be in their hands.
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A handful also send delegates to the convention "unpledged", meaning they are not required to support a given candidate.
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"There are ways to reduce the number of unpledged delegates significantly, without denying any delegate their vote," he said.
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Clinton is still on track to be the nominee, however, because of her current lead in pledged and unpledged delegates.
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The Associated Press has since upped Trump's total, saying that he's taken a majority of the unpledged delegates in Pennsylvania.
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According to The Associated Press delegate count, Clinton has 2023,809 unpledged delegates and 548 superdelegates for a total of 2,21625.
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In Guam, Republicans chose nine delegates for the party's July convention, but the delegates were officially unpledged to any candidate.
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Bernie Sanders' allies are pushing to go further -- doing away with unpledged delegates altogether, at least on the first ballot.
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In addition to those "pledged" delegates, the Democratic primary also features "unpledged" delegates — or "superdelegates" — who are now mainly ornamental.
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While the Democratic super delegates got a lot of press in the past, these unpledged RNC members are almost never mentioned.
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According to a tally kept by The Associated Press, Clinton has 862 pledged and unpledged delegates compared to 209 for Sanders.
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New Jersey holds its Democratic primary on June 7, and awards 126 pledged delegates proportionally, as well as 16 unpledged delegates.
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Maine effectively abolished them by mandating that its unpledged delegates cast ballots in proportion to the vote of the primary election.
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What about the delegation walkouts over unpledged delegates or the rules over counting votes for other candidates as votes for Trump?
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That's approximately 100 unpledged delegates who are not bound by state rules to vote for the winner of their state's primary.
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But don't confuse the pledged PLEO delegates with those unpledged PLEO delegates, aka superdelegates, who don't vote unless there's a contest.
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Ford was able to get the number he needed thanks to unpledged delegates, so the convention went on in a traditional manner.
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Clinton has more than 90 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed for the nomination, including unpledged superdelegates who can change their affiliation.
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Most important, Mr. Trump has the support of 1,542 pledged and unpledged delegates — more than the 1,237 required to clinch the nomination.
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Trump currently has 1,144 delegates pledged to him, with an additional 95 unpledged delegates (superdelegates) saying they'll support him at the conventions.
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He said the letter was widely ignored, even by media outlets that had run stories asserting the unpledged delegates were backing Cruz.
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The second ballot vote could lead to a potentially contentious floor fight, given that all delegates become unpledged after the first vote.
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A: Superdelegates, officially known as unpledged delegates, are a sort of wild card in the nominating process, but only the Democrats have them.
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Instead in the spot where #379 should have appeared, there was a second bubble for #378 (who was running as an unpledged delegate).
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The Unity Reform Commission has proposed a new system: The superdelegates who are elected officials and distinguished party leaders would remain unpledged delegates.
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The purpose of having unpledged delegates is to allow party elders to have a greater say in who the party nominee will be.
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That total includes unpledged superdelegates who are free to back the candidate of their choice but told the news service whom they support.
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What the party leaders did was guarantee themselves unpledged votes at the convention that they could use for whichever candidate they saw fit.
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Counting her wide edge among unpledged "super delegates," she now has roughly two-thirds of the total needed to secure the Democratic nomination.
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The bank's liquid assets (cash, short-term interbank and unpledged bonds) at 0003 August were sufficient to cover over 20% of customer funding.
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ON MAY 26th the Associated Press declared that Donald Trump has won 1,238 delegates (counting unpledged), enough to claim the Republican nomination outright.
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Surely, Sanders cannot be seeking the votes of superdelegates at the same time he is repudiating their right to vote as unpledged delegates.
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It hadn't, of course, but that didn't mean the antiquated rules governing superdelegates (unpledged party leaders, elected officials, and activists) were worth saving.
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Even leaving out unpledged "superdelegates," Sanders is well behind Clinton in the delegate count, thanks to her series of landslide wins across the South.
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Sanders cannot mathematically win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot without a significant number of superdelegates who are unpledged or have endorsed Clinton.
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A clear win in California but a loss in Indiana would set up a contested convention where the unpledged Pennsylvania delegates could be decisive.
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He added that he believes it is possible to reduce the number of unpledged delegates but not deny them their vote in the process.
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"Unpledged PLEOs" are also known as "superdelegates," who get to serve as a national convention delegate automatically as a function of the position they hold.
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The Republicans do have unpledged delegates – 168 members of the Republican National Committee – but they make up less than 7 percent of the total convention.
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Then since Clinton has the overwhelming support of the elected officials and other party officers who serve as unpledged "superdelegates," she will win the nomination.
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Oh, and the Sanders campaign is saying that it will try to flip superdelegates even if it loses the unpledged delegates and the popular vote.
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"It flies in the face of the conventional wisdom about who is doing a better job of reaching out to the unpledged delegates," he said.
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It's extremely unlikely that Sanders could catch Clinton in unpledged delegates, even with a runaway victory in California, where 475 delegates will be awarded proportionally.
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The group of about 21 automatic, unpledged party leaders, elected officials and activists previously were able to back whichever candidate for the nomination they chose.
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"In 2016, unpledged delegates, or what some call 'super delegates,' made up almost 85033% of all delegates at the national convention," Perez and Ellison write.
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Four to seven delegates are awarded in each of California's 53 congressional districts, plus an additional 79 unpledged so-called superdelegates — many elected officials, including Gov.
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At stake is the future of "superdelegates," the 700 or so party leaders entitled to cast votes as "unpledged delegates" for the candidate of their choosing.
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These unpledged delegates make up 30 percent of the 2,382 delegates whose votes are needed to win the nomination, and could thus make all the difference.
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That's why our committee changed the nominating process to reduce the influence of unpledged delegates and reform our process to make it more transparent and inclusive.
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Delegate candidate David Head ran as an "unpledged" delegate in the hope of serving as a voice against Trump on the floor of Republican convention in July.
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This year, if there is no consensus nominee, the Democrats will go to a second ballot, where 771 unpledged superdelegates will be empowered to pick a nominee.
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In 6 states and territories (American Samoa, Colorado, Guam, North Dakota, Virgin Islands, and Wyoming), the RNC-members are unpledged, meaning they can support whomever they choose.
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He took questions from reporters for about 183 minutes, speaking with a backdrop of more than a dozen unpledged North Dakota delegates who are now supporting him.
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He is estimated to have won 26 of the 26 pledged delegates at stake on Tuesday, and appears to have claimed about 40 of Pennsylvania's unpledged delegates.
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Crucially, these superdelegates are "unpledged" or "unbound," meaning they can change their mind about which candidate they will vote for at the Democratic National Convention in July.
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Her support could be of help ahead of the California primary where 495 delegates (6900 pledged, 79 unpledged) are up for grabs — the most of any state.
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He may even be so short that he could not win on the first ballot even if he picks up the 100 or so unpledged delegates in Cleveland.
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The Cruz campaign outfoxed Trump to secure the unpledged delegates at stake in Louisiana, giving Cruz a delegate advantage even though Trump won the Bayou State's Republican primary.
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Yet many of the superdelegates — also known as unpledged party leader and elected official delegates — were pledged to Hillary Clinton long before rank-and-file Democrats even voted.
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Finally, consider the third rail of Democratic primary politics: superdelegates, the unpledged party leaders and elected officials who have automatically been seated at the convention in the past.
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Apart from the delegates decided by voters, usually around 24 people, called superdelegates, get their own unpledged delegate to award to the candidate of their choosing, regardless of voters.
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Nevada will ultimately send 43 delegates and three alternates to the convention later this year, including unpledged delegates otherwise known as superdelegates, and pledged party leaders and elected officials.
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A creditor with knowledge of the matter said this should be possible, since there were not enough unpledged senior bonds to block that class's vote or the overall one.
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He's technically right about this: It takes 2,383 delegates to win the nomination on the floor, and it takes any combination of pledged and unpledged delegates to get there.
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Still, the proposal to limit the role of superdelegates — officially called unpledged delegates — has won the support of many party leaders and dignitaries, including two former DNC chairs, Sen.
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Three of the state's 29 delegates are unpledged state party officials, and only 12 delegates were contested on Saturday, with Mr. Cruz, the Texas senator, winning nine of them.
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He had the most delegates, won the most states and collected the most votes, yet he stood to lose the nomination because he lacked the support of unpledged delegates.
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Superdelegates are unpledged delegates that are not bound to state primaries or caucuses, and can vote for whichever candidate they prefer at the DNC's nominating convention in the summer.
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Sector liquidity is generally good (highly liquid assets, including cash, short-term bank placements and unpledged government bonds accounted for 20% of sector assets at end-June), although unevenly distributed.
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While unpledged delegates have never overruled the will of the grassroots voters who form the base of our party, this reform eliminates any possibility that it could happen going forward.
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"Hillary leads in pledged and unpledged delegates, and there is little opportunity for that dynamic to change over the next few weeks," said former Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Holly Shulman.
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He entered election day trailing by nearly 85033 unpledged delegates and will need to take more than 60 percent support in the remaining contests if he's going to catch Clinton.
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However, the lawmakers' proposal was rejected due to it not meeting the Unity and Reform Commission's earlier decision to reduce the number of unpledged delegates by two-thirds, CNN reports.
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A statement from Perez's press secretary said that the DNC would ensure that any proposal adopted by the DNC would "significantly" reduce the role of unpledged delegates at the convention.
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Clinton reached 2,384 delegates following this weekend's win in the Puerto Rico primary, in which 60 delegates were at stake, and commitments from a number of previously unpledged super delegates.
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The move blocked these unpledged delegates, like elected officials and party leaders, from casting a vote for any presidential candidate unless a second ballot is required at the nominating convention.
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In past elections, all of the Republican delegates were unpledged, meaning that they were not required to vote for the candidate at the next round of caucusing or eventually the convention.
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The 2008 and 2016 DNC conventions weren't "brokered," though, because Democrats since 1984 have allowed a large number of unpledged or uncommitted delegates to attend and vote at the national convention.
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More recently, it became mathematically impossible for John Kasich to win a delegate majority, and Ted Cruz would now probably have to rely on unpledged delegates to clear the victory threshold.
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About 2,551 delegates to attend Republican National Convention About 2,113 delegates — including at least 168 unpledged delegates — are expected to attend the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August.
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The 74-year-old senator is predicting a win here on Tuesday, and with it enough momentum to sway unpledged delegates at what he says will be a "messy" convention in Philadelphia.
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Our model puts his projected delegate deficit as slightly less than the number of delegates left unpledged (54) in Pennsylvania, meaning he would be projected to win if they were bound delegates.
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If a candidate who has won primaries pulls out before the convention takes place — that's what happened with Huckabee in 2008 — his or her delegates become unpledged and pick another candidate to support.
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Superdelegates — DNC members, elected officials, and party leaders who are unpledged and basically get to vote for whomever they want — won't get to vote on the first ballot if the convention is contested.
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In Oregon, which votes next week, Mr. Sanders appealed to unpledged superdelegates, who can cast votes as they please at the convention, to rally behind him as the stronger opponent to Mr. Trump.
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There, 17 delegates go to the statewide winner, but voters also directly elect 54 unpledged delegates to the Republican convention, and the Pennsylvania ballot includes no guidance on how these delegates might vote.
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He may ultimately win fewer unpledged delegates than he would have if the state had adopted more typical rules, but he will not be shut out as he was in Colorado's delegate convention.
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"This vote to strip superdelegates, unpledged delegates, automatic delegates, whatever you want to call us of our voice on the first ballot is inconsistent with our charter," former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile told Politico.
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Liquidity cushion remains sizeable with cash and short-term bank placements covering 17% of liabilities at end-3371495H3371956, while unpledged debt securities and loans eligible for repo with the CBR comprised a further 33716657%.
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Also known as unpledged delegates or "automatic" delegates, these are the party bigs -- congresspeople, governors, senators and former presidents -- who aren't tied to any particular candidates regardless of what happens in their state primaries.
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Sanders invoked new DNC rules that allow unpledged "superdelegates" to have a say if the convention goes to a second ballot, while it was not clear that the other candidates were talking about superdelegates.
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"Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grass-roots activists," she told CNN's Jake Tapper in February.
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Though the candidates had the option to run as "unpledged," all three delegates and the three alternates who were elected officially pledged to support Cruz on the first ballot, according to Colorado GOP party officials.
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In Louisiana the 10 additional delegates Cruz's campaign is seeking come from two places: five from former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and five unpledged delegates, who are not required to support a particular candidate.
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Liquidity in local currency is comfortable and underpinned by large holdings of unpledged government securities eligible for refinancing with the National Bank of Ukraine (37% of assets at Ukreximbank and 26% at Oschadbank at end-1H153).
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Mr. Trump even seemed likely to win unpledged delegates elected in Pennsylvania's unusual "loophole" primary, the type of contest — focusing on gaining the loyalty of individual delegates — that has tripped him up so far this cycle.
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Sanders has argued that he's the candidate best positioned to beat Trump, and that Democratic Party's unpledged superdelegates should therefore back him even if he fails to overtake Clinton in delegates before the Democratic National Convention.
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I don't speak for young liberals, but good luck selling any member of this generation on the idea that a bunch of unpledged delegates were worth more than the votes of real primary and caucus voters.
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If the role of these unpledged, automatic delegates shifts from this informal, elite-centered winnowing to being able to help decide in the case of a contentious nomination, this might make real competition over nominations more viable.
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He began the day fewer than 30 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, and on Thursday, he reached the required 1,237-delegate threshold with the help of unpledged delegates in the state who moved to support him.
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In 2020, unpledged delegates will no longer be able to cast a vote on the first convention ballot, unless one of the candidates has already secured enough pledged delegates in primaries and caucuses to guarantee their nomination.
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The most significant, and divisive, step would involve reducing the role and power of superdelegates — the unpledged party insiders who are free to back any candidate regardless of how the public votes — ahead of the 2020 election.
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But election forecasts are predicting that he may not earn a majority of pledged delegates at the Democratic National Convention in July, setting up a scenario in which unpledged delegates, or superdelegates, will help decide the nominee.
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Unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates, are free-movers at the convention who can change their endorsements based on the results of the public ballot and who they think will be the stronger candidate in a general election.
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"Democrats lack a clear understanding of the superdelegate process in the primary race, but at the same time believe the unpledged delegates have too much control over who wins the nomination," said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult's vice president.
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Clinton's shift to these battleground states comes less than 24 hours after The Associated Press announced she had accumulated enough unpledged delegates and superdelegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia in July.
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"I was able to talk about some ways the twin objectives could be achieved: to significantly reduce the number of unpledged delegates, and secondly, to do that without denying or overriding anyone's vote at the convention," Price told Politico.
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The DNC voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to limit the role of superdelegates — unpledged delegates to the DNC who choose for themselves for whom they vote — and not allow them to vote during the first ballot of the nominating process.
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Liquidity is supported by a sizable liquidity cushion, including cash and unpledged securities (29% of end-13H17 total liabilities), and part of the loan book (9% of liabilities) could also be pledged to raise funding from the Central Bank of Russia.
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Apart from the delegates decided by voters, a group of about 700 people, or superdelegates — a group made up of DNC members, Democratic elected officials, and former leaders — get their own "unpledged" delegate to award to the candidate of their choosing.
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And his only remaining chance for the nomination is stringing together a series of solid, lopsided victories that narrow her lead among pledged delegates and generate a collapse in confidence among unpledged "super delegates" who overwhelmingly favor her so far.
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Providence, Rhode Island (CNN)Democrats charged with deciding the fate of "superdelegates," the automatic unpledged delegates criticized for their outsized influence on the party's primary process, are closer to a final agreement on reducing their role in electing Democratic presidential nominees.
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Fitch views foreign currency liquidity buffers (defined as cash, placements in foreign banks, unpledged government foreign currency securities, placements in the central bank's reserve option mechanism (ROM) and net receivables under foreign currency swaps) as generally adequate at all three banks.
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What to watch: The 21-member Unity Reform Commission recommended a 60% reduction in superdelegates -- binding DNC members to their states' results on the first ballot but allowing elected officials and former presidents and vice presidents to retain their unpledged status.
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Some smaller banks have tight liquidity buffers, including Moscow Industrial Bank (7% of total assets, 8% coverage of customer accounts)) and Jugra (5%, 6%; its license was subsequently withdrawn by the CBR in July); these banks also had limited volumes of unpledged securities.
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Modifying a recommendation made by the party's Unity Reform Commission, the Democratic National Committee voted in August 2018 to deny "unpledged party leader and elected official delegates"— so-called superdelegates — a vote on the first convention ballot of a contested presidential nomination.
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Even by winning all 42, Cruz wouldn't make it impossible for Trump to win the 1,237 he needs to clinch the party's nomination before its convention in Cleveland, where there will also be a pool of unpledged delegates available to every candidate.
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When I ran the Nevada caucus for Hillary in 2008, we "won" with 50.8% of the precinct delegates to Obama's 45.1%, but Obama actually won 13 unpledged delegates -- one more than Clinton's 12 -- because of how the delegates were proportioned by congressional district.
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This margin is not well-known, because both campaigns (and the media) have avoided telling the public that the race is over as a result of the choices made by superdelegates, unpledged party officials who automatically receive votes at the national convention.
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" Dems come closer to solving 'superdelegate' disagreement - WaPo: "The Democratic National Committee's two-year debate over its presidential primary rules came closer to resolution Wednesday, as its key rulemaking body voted to curtail the power of unpledged delegates — so-called 'superdelegates' — at the next convention.
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When they signed up to run as delegates in Colorado, they had a choice to pledge their allegiance to a candidate on the form they filled out, but they also could run as an unpledged delegate -- essentially making them free agents at the convention.
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The Unity Reform Commission, formed by Sanders and Clinton to review the party's nominating process, has since proposed a new system to effectively reduce superdelegates by about 60%: Elected officials and distinguished party leaders would remain "unpledged" superdelegates, able to cast their vote for any candidate.
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Here's a look at how the superdelegates process works and how CNN's count put Clinton over the top: Superdelegates are unpledged delegates who get to act as free agents in the Democratic nomination process by choosing which candidate to support irrespective of any primary or caucus results.
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"It's a paradigm shift to say that the unpledged delegates on that first ballot are in a different position, that the will of the nominee is going to be chosen, if chosen on the first ballot, by what the primary and caucus process produced," Weingarten told CNN.
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To create a fairer process for all candidates and empower grass-roots voters, it is critical that the Unity Reform Commission provide recommendations that uphold the mandate passed by the 2016 Democratic National Convention and provide for a significant reduction in the number of unpledged delegates.
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"The DNC heard concerns that members of Congress had with the current consensus and discussed how any proposal must significantly reduce the role of unpledged delegates, a commitment that the full DNC voted for in March," DNC press secretary Michael Tyler told Politico in a statement.
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Assuming there is no one with a clear majority, that will leave some three months for campaigns to reach out to delegates pledged to former candidates as well as to unpledged delegates who had supported former candidates in order to solicit support on the convention floor.
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The 'BBB' rating on ART's senior unsecured debt is driven by Fitch's view that the trust's senior unsecured creditors have only a limited risk of legal subordination from its secured creditors, so long as the ratio of unpledged assets to unsecured debt remains higher than 21750x (end-21000: 2110x).
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The Ohio governor's campaign is all about a play for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland -- where he's hoping home-court advantage will help him court unpledged delegates, those committed to Marco Rubio on the first ballot and more to quickly grow his support in a floor fight.
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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE had a legitimate gripe about the Republican unpledged delegates.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) after receiving the support of the superdelegates — "unpledged delegates" in the party's parlance.
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Publicly, Mr. Sanders's position is that he can still win the nomination if he persuades unpledged superdelegates — elected officials, party habitués and various others granted delegate status by virtue of their office or connections — to support him by the time they have to cast their vote at the convention in late July.
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Using simplified numbers (these do not reflect the actual number of delegates that will be voting at the 2020 convention), here's how it will work among the 1,200 total convention delegates (1,20203 pledged and 200 unpledged): SCENARIO ONE: A candidate earns a majority of pledged delegates only (501 to 600 pledged delegates).
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"This is just the beginning of a four-month process to convince the unpledged delegates and alternates in Colorado that Donald Trump means what he says, he's going to make America great again," said Davis, a Colorado-based political consultant who joined the Trump team this week after Trump's campaign manager fired their Colorado state director.
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During the 22019 Democratic convention, unpledged superdelegates made up roughly 15 percent of the total delegates that got to choose the party's presidential nominee and they overwhelmingly backed Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE over Sen.
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