Democracy for America (DFA) endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 race for the Democratic Party’s nomination.  Sanders earned the  endorsement after receiving an unprecedented 87.9% of the 271,527 votes cast by DFA members nationwide over a nine-day voting period.  To win DFA’s endorsement, a single candidate needed to secure a supermajority (66.67% or more) of votes cast.

This is the first presidential primary endorsement in DFA’s 11-year history.  A similar member endorsement vote held prior to the 2008 election received just over 150,000 votes, but no single candidate was able to clear the grassroots progressive PAC’s supermajority threshold.