Obama varnar kandidater: ”Var inte för radikala”
USA:s förre president Barack Obama har ännu inte officiellt uttryckt sitt stöd till någon av de många demokratiska kandidater som vill ställa upp i nästa års presidentval – och varnar dem nu för att vara för radikala, skriver BBC. Allt för mycket vänsterpolitik riskerar nämligen att stöta bort väljare, menar han.
– De flesta amerikaner vill inte riva ner systemet, säger Obama.
I stället uppmanar ex-presidenten de demokratiska kandidaterna att vara uppmärksamma på vad väljarna faktiskt tänker om frågor som sjukvård och migration.
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The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses will be a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the approximately 3,769 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Those delegates shall, by pledged votes, elect the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The elections are scheduled to take place from February to June 2020 in all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad.
Independently of the result of primaries and caucuses, the Democratic Party will, from its group of party leaders and elected officials, also appoint 765 unpledged delegates (superdelegates) to participate in its national convention. In contrast to all previous election cycles, superdelegates will no longer have the right to cast decisive votes at the convention's first ballot for the presidential nomination (limiting their voting rights to either non-decisive votes on the first ballot or decisive votes for subsequent ballots on a contested convention).The field of major Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 election peaked at more than two dozen. As of November 14, 2019, 18 major candidates are seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. The October 15, 2019, Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, Ohio, featured 12 candidates, setting a record for the highest number of candidates in one presidential debate.
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