Loyalty
Sanders’ Quest for Superdelegates Loses One After Virgin Island Official Flips to Clinton
His last-ditch bid for the Democratic presidential nomination relies on persuading Clinton’s superdelegate backers to support him.
Senator Bernie Sanders delivers a speech during a campaign rally at the theater of Universidad de Puerto Rico on May 16, 2016, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Bernie Sanders is trying to persuade Democratic Party superdelegates backing Hillary Clinton to flip their allegiance as a last-ditch bid for the nomination, but one Sanders supporter is going the other way.
Emmett Hansen II, the Democratic National Committeeman for the U.S. Virgin Islands, decided to shift his support to Clinton after a weekend briefing on her plans for U.S. territories that followed months of dissatisfaction with Sanders’ lack of concrete positions.