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Donna Edwards Says She Had No Idea She Was a Superdelegate

June 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton supporter Rep. Donna Edwards (D., Md.) said Sunday on Meet The Press that she had no idea she was a Democratic superdelegate.

The role of unpledged superdelegates in the Democratic primary process has come to the forefront in the 2016 campaign, with supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) pointing to them as evidence of a system that's rigged in favor of establishment favorite Hillary Clinton.

Superdelegates include elected members of the Democratic National Committee in Congress, but Edwards apparently didn't know that.

Chuck Todd discovered this when he asked Edwards whether she supported their abolition at this summer's Democratic National Convention.

"You have extra powers. You're a superdelegate," Todd said. "You're not just a delegate, you're a superdelegate. Should there be superdelegates? Are you going to be somebody that supports getting rid of them at the Democratic convention?"

"First of all, I didn't even know I was a superdelegate," she said, smiling. "But now that I know, I feel extra powerful, but what I do know is these were the rules going in. All of us knew these rules going in, and I think it is time for us to rethink them, but you don't do that in the middle of the game."

Edwards was recently defeated in the Maryland Democratic Senate primary by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.).