Assertion: convention's delegate | /r/CapableOf | attend the convention
Facets:
value: nowadays
type: TEMPORAL
value: to secure the nomination
type: PURPOSE
value: in years
type: TEMPORAL
value: as candidate directs
type: MANNER
value: as more likely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: However, if a candidate only suspends his or her campaign, as was the case with Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren, the delegates can attend the convention and vote as their candidate directs, or more likely, as they themselves wish.
text: Differing from a brokered convention mostly semantically, a contested convention is one in which no one candidate has enough delegates going into the convention to secure the nomination.
text: In years past, most delegates went to conventions unelected by voters and unpledged to candidates.
text: Almost all of the delegates who attend the Conventions nowadays are committed delegates; that is, chosen in the primaries and committed to voting for their candidate on the first ballot at the Convention if he or she is still in the race.
text: Thus when the actual delegates are chosen and go to the convention, they don silly hats and cheer for the television cameras and, off-camera, they plan to turn out the vote in November and conduct their own state and local party business.
text: Instead, the party's nominee will be chosen by the delegates who come to the convention, on a series of one or more ballots.
text: Pledged delegates from all fifty U.S. states and from American dependencies and territories such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and superdelegates which are unpledged delegates representing the Democratic establishment, attend the convention and cast their votes to choose the Party's presidential candidate.
text: Delegates from all fifty U.S. states and from American dependencies and territories such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands attend the convention and cast their votes to choose the Party's presidential candidate.
text: Neither man had secured the necessary number of delegates going into the convention, however by the first ballot Ford successfully swayed a majority of delegates to support him.
text: During a recent Democratic debate, candidates were asked if they are in favor of the current system, or if the nomination should automatically go to whichever candidate has the most delegates going into the convention, even if they do not have a majority.