Washingtonians Hound Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders
Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in Washington’s caucuses
Saturday, yet state Rep. Rick Larsen, a superdelegate, is ready to vote
for her anyway. Sanders backers flooded Larsen’s Facebook account,
demanding that he honor the will of his constituents.
“Superdelegates,” explained
The Guardian’s Trevor Timm in February, are roughly 700 members of
Congress, governors, mayors and other party elites “who aren’t elected
by anyone during the primary process and are free to vote any way they
want at the [nominating] convention.”
Washington voters overwhelmingly favored Sanders
over Clinton, 72 percent to 27 percent, in Saturday’s Democratic
caucus. The Vermont senator carried every county in the state—and voters
in Whatcom County, where Larsen keeps an office, chose Sanders by 81
percent.
Rep. Rick Larsen of Washington state’s 2nd Congressional District. (Online Guide to House Members and Senators)
