Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was interviewed by ABC's "This Week" about his chances to win the Democratic presidential nomination and said, unlike in 2016, that whoever wins the support of the most delegates should be the Democratic nominee.
Sanders said, "I hope that we will win the pledged delegates. But, at the end of the day, the responsibility that superdelegates have is to decide what is best for this country and what is best for the Democratic Party. And if those superdelegates conclude that Bernie Sanders is the best candidate, the strongest candidate to defeat Trump and anybody else, yes, I would very much welcome their support."
Host George Stephanopulos then asked, "If that argument was correct then, why isn't it correct now?"
Sanders responded, George, that was in May. California, the last primary, was in June. And what I said is, at that point, if I can great -- create momentum, and if we win the California primary, then I think superdelegates might want to rethink where we're at. That was before the end of the process.""What you're asking me now is if, at the end the entire Democratic process, a candidate, maybe Bernie Sanders, ends up with more votes than anybody else, and we go into the convention, and the Democratic establishment and the superdelegates say, hey, yes, Bernie won more votes than anybody else, he won state after state after state, but we don't want him, you know what that will do to the Democratic base in this country? People will say, why -- you are rejecting the candidate."