Mondale gradually pulled away from Hart in the delegate count , but , as '' Time '' reported in late May , " Mondale ... has a wide lead in total delegates ( 1,564 to 941 ) ... because of his victories in the big industrial states , his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago . " After the final primary in California , on June 5 , which Hart won , Mondale was about 40 delegates short of the total he needed for the nomination . However , at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 16 , Mondale received the overwhelming support of the unelected superdelegates from the party establishment to win the nomination
Democratic National Convention
1984 Democratic National Convention
1984 United States presidential election