If no candidate wins a majority of pledged delegates after the primaries, the situation heads to the convention. ADAmong the rest, only Biden has even a 1 in 8 chance (13 percent) of winning a delegate majority, and he’s not exactly riding high at the moment. The rest of the field has a combined 11 percent chance of a delegate majority, per the forecast. It was as if they saw being the second-place candidate or a viable alternative in a contested convention as a viable (and maybe even their best?) ADAnd even if a convention did wrest the nomination from Sanders’s grasp, imagine the outcry.
Source: Washington Post February 20, 2020 21:06 UTC