Remaining Dems Wring Hands about Whether to Prepare for a Contested Convention and to Court Super Delegates

From the Intelligencer:

Is there going to be someone like Obama was in ’08 — not in a majority, but so clearly ahead that it’s a foregone conclusion? Or a muddle in the delegates, like the state results?,” asked Addisu Demissie, a longtime Democratic strategist and Cory Booker’s 2020 campaign manager. “That’s the question.”

No candidate is publicly admitting that they’re hoping for a muddle — each still professes to see a path to victory. But some candidates’ aides are still wondering, under their breath, whether they should be actively preparing to compete on the second ballot at the convention in Milwaukee. A second ballot could occur if Sanders’s final delegate total is too small to carry him to the nomination on the first ballot. Bloomberg’s aides have quietly started wooing elected officials and other superdelegates with this specific scenario explicitly in mind.