Dozens of interviews with Democratic establishment leaders this week show that the Democratic Party are not just worried about a Bernie Sanders’s candidacy, but are also willing to risk intraparty damage to stop his nomination at the national convention in July if they get the chance.

Since Sanders’s victory in Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday, The Times has interviewed 93 party officials — all of them superdelegates, who could have a say on the nominee at the convention — and found overwhelming opposition to handing the Vermont senator the nomination if he arrived with the most delegates but fell short of a majority.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have both said that Sanders should not become the nominee if he arrived at the convention short of a delegate majority.

“Bernie had a big hand in writing these rules,” Warren said during a CNN forum on Wednesday night. “I don’t see how he thinks he gets to change them now that he thinks there’s an advantage for him.”

Read more at The New York Times.

{Matzav.com}