Only a handful of states into the 2020 primary, Democratic presidential candidates have already started arguing about what to do if no one wins a majority of delegates to this summer’s Democratic convention.
But what exactly would happen in that scenario? The answer brings in the Democratic Party’s complicated nominating process, the sometimes-controversial party officials known as “superdelegates,” and the possibility of an actual contested convention — in which no candidate comes into the convention with enough delegates to secure the nomination — for the first time in the modern primary era.