The 2020 presidential campaign will begin all too soon, alas, and one question is whether Democrats nominate a centrist or someone from the rising left wing. The chances of the latter rose Saturday when the Democratic National Committee changed its rules to strip superdelegates of their first-ballot nominating leverage. Potomac Watch PodcastSuperdelegates are party officeholders and insiders who in 2016 represented about 15% of nominating delegates. Most favored Hillary Clinton, and they were her backstop had Bernie Sanders won enough delegates in primaries and caucuses to take the nomination fight to the convention. Mr. Sanders failed, but he and the party left still resent the role of superdelegates, and on Saturday the insurgents carried the day in a vote that stripped party officials of any potentially decisive nominating role.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 26, 2018 19:30 UTC