{"id":87059,"date":"2020-03-02T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=87059&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=87059"},"modified":"2020-03-06T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:36:25","slug":"il-democratic-delegate-candidate-writes-talks-and-sings-support-for-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/il-democratic-delegate-candidate-writes-talks-and-sings-support-for-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"IL Democratic delegate candidate writes, talks and sings support for Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samone Blair<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Hyde Park resident Andr\u00e9 J. Washington hopes to be one of 155 Illinoisans who will head to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention after being elected as a pledged delegate during the March 17 primary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"IL Democratic delegate candidate writes, talks and sings support for Warren\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/394539850?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Washington, a lawyer, supports Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s presidential bid and is running to be one of the seven delegates to represent Illinois\u2019 2nd Congressional District. In 2016, he supported Sen. Bernie Sanders and served as an alternate delegate for his campaign at the DNC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was getting really excited about Elizabeth around spring of 2019 and I knew I was going to be spending a lot of time and energy supporting her,\u201d Washington said. \u201cI figured I might as well make it official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington, who describes being a delegate as being a \u201csuper-organizer,&#8221; spends free time canvassing, passing out pamphlets and writing postcards to support Warren. Additionally, he recreates famous songs with lyrics about Warren \u2014 \u201cMy Favorite Plans\u201d instead of \u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d for example \u2014 and posts them on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>There will be 4,750 total delegates at the DNC including 3,979 pledged delegates. To win the nomination, a candidate must receive support from 1,991 pledged delegates. If the convention is contested, there can be multiple rounds of voting in which superdelegates are allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois will have 29 superdelegates in attendance, bringing the total number of Illinoisans at the DNC to 184. In Illinois, a presidential candidate must receive 15% of the vote at the congressional district level in order to be pledged a delegate like Washington.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Medill Reports visited Andr\u00e9 Washington at home as fellow Warren supporters wrote postcards to spread the word about his and Warren&#8217;s campaigns.\u00a0(Samone Blair\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samone Blair Medill Reports Hyde Park resident Andr\u00e9 J. Washington hopes to be one of 155 Illinoisans who will head to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention after being elected as a pledged delegate during the March 17 primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":87063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4946,2951,4892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2020","category-politicsnational-security","category-winter-2020"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IL Democratic delegate candidate writes, talks and sings support for Warren - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/il-democratic-delegate-candidate-writes-talks-and-sings-support-for-warren\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IL Democratic delegate candidate writes, talks and sings support for Warren - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Samone Blair Medill Reports Hyde Park resident Andr\u00e9 J. 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