DNC Chairman Howard Dean is increasing the pressure on undecided superdelegates:
(CNN)— An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”
“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”
After facing criticism for a mostly hands-off leadership style during much of the primary season, Dean has been steadily raising the rhetorical pressure on superdelegates. He said Thursday that roughly 65 percent of them have made their preference plain, but that more than 300 have yet to make up their minds.
Of course, Dean can’t force the superdelegates to do anything, and they could switch their allegiance before, or at, the convention, but the alternative is two months of constant pressure from the candidates, the press, and the party.
Here’s the video:
H/T: Donklephant
