Super delegate

An old adage says that money is the mother’s milk of politics and often times candidates say they lost because they were out spent. In the 2016 presidential election Clinton out spent Trump by $450 million and still lost. She was seasoned politician with the backing of the democratic establishment as witnessed by the fact that Clinton received 602 super delegates to Sanders 48. Super delegates were put into the democratic platform to assure the some outside populist like Trump could never be elected. The establishment would be able to stop such a takeover.