Curious on your thoughts. If we get to the convention and Bernie has a plurality of the vote, but not a majority, and the other delegate-awarded candidates decide between themselves to throw all of their support to one of them — meaning that all the Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Warren, Klobuchar delegates were given to a single one of them, with the full agreement and support of each of these delegate winners — so that there were now, say, 60% for the alternative candidate vs 40% for Bernie (and I am pulling these numbers out of a hat for demonstrative purposes only), would you have the impression that the nomination had been “stolen” from Senator Sanders, or that “the fix was in”, if all the other candidates agreed upon a single alternative consensus candidate?
I would understand some degree of offence taken, given that the insinuation would be that the other candidates have created an Anybody but Bernie ticket; I would also expect all efforts to claim every delegate that they were due, or making an alliance with someone to get a majority of the candidates outright, but this question is specifically this potential situation > There is one candidate that has managed to gain the approval/support/delegates of all of the other candidates who controls 60% of all delegates, while Bernie controls 40%. Would you accept the will of the majority of voters as being valid? Second question, would you vote for that candidate in the General, if the nomination was given to the not-Bernie?