Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will end his presidential campaign if former Vice President Joe Biden wins a plurality of pledged delegates by the end of the Democratic National Convention in July.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked Sanders, "If, at the end of the day, it turns out that Vice President Biden is going to have more delegates than you do heading into the convention, will you drop out?"
Sanders answered, "Of course, I'm going to drop out. He will win. We'll run through – I suspect we will run through – the process letting people have a right to vote, but if Biden walks into the convention or at the end of the process has more votes than me, he's the winner."
Sanders added, he would drop out if Biden had a majority or a plurality, adding he opposes the use of superdelegates in the nomination process.
"In other words, we go into the first ballot, it is representatives, delegates who are represented by the people, and I think that that's right," Sanders said. "And what I have said is I think it would be a real, real disaster for the Democratic Party if, you know, I'm running against you, and you have more votes than me, and I say, 'well, wait a second, I don't want Rachel. I want somebody else who didn't get as many votes as she did. Let's count the superdelegates' vote on the second ballot – you know what that would do to the Democratic electorate?
"People would say the person who got the most votes didn't get selected."
The senator then clarified he meant "most delegates," instead of "most votes."
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