Sentence examples for delegate system from inspiring English sources

But the proportional delegate system kept Obama steadily out of reach.

Trump's recriminations over the delegate system come with a dose of irony.

Georgia, which Mr. Gingrich won, is smaller than Ohio, but it gets more delegates thanks to the bonus delegate system.

Momentum's national committee was divided, but voted by a small margin in favour of a delegate system last Saturday.

Gail Russell, a member from Kentucky, which has its primary in May, supports the new delegate system, which ends winner-take-all primaries until April.

The Republican National Committee has leapt to defend the process, saying the delegate system has been used by the party to choose a presidential candidate for generations.

That has upset a number of Sanders partisans, who say the super-delegate system is unfair and undemocratic.

But it is simple and direct in terms of keeping the parts of the super-delegate system which makes the supers good while slicing off the unsavory bits.

After all, super-delegates showing a willingness to switch to Sanders now that them doing so is, for all practical purposes, entirely meaningless would send a signal to Sanders supporters that the super-delegate system isn't as broken as we think.

It would send a clear message that there's still room in the Democrats' self-admittedly flawed super-delegate system for super-delegates to vote their conscience, rather than simply for the candidate who's raised the most money for the party machine.

But that the party opted for its delegate election system doesn't mean the system was sprung on the candidates at the last minute.