Via courant.com: Lieberman No Longer a Super Delegate
Lieberman’s endorsement of Republican John McCain disqualifies him as a super-delegate to the Democratic National Convention under what is informally known as the Zell Miller rule, according to Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo.
I must confess, I am surprised to hear that Lieberman was even considered qualified as a super-delegate to begin with. Yes, he caucuses with the Democrats, but he calls himself an “Independent Democrat” and lost his party’s primary in 2024, and had to beat the official Democratic nominee to get back to the Senate. As such, having a key privilege of a party members hardly seems appropriate. And certainly the endorsement of McCain would make allowing him a voting role at the DNC would be quite odd.
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That was my reaction. I guess that they never revisited his superdelegate status. I think all former Democratic veeps get to be superdelegates automatically, so they had to have a good reason to remove him . . . but isn’t his election as an independent good enough?
Comment by B. Minich — Thursday, February 7, 2024 @ 8:17 am
Does Bernie Sanders get a superdelegate vote? If so, then Lieberman had a pretty good case for getting his own vote up until his endorsement of McCain.
Comment by R. Alex — Thursday, February 7, 2024 @ 10:55 am