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> “Yeah rigging the primary worked wonders for the Democrats last time,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, invoking his father’s frequent claims in 2016 that the Democr
by skrowl 7y ago
> “Yeah rigging the primary worked wonders for the Democrats last time,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, invoking his father’s frequent claims in 2016 that the Democratic nominating process was rigged against Bernie Sanders.
Are we.... are we still pretending it wasn't rigged? Debbie Wasserman Schultz literally was forced to resign as DNC chair over the rigging scandal. I don't think the DNC rigging their 2016 primary is controversial or in dispute is it?
If so, framing it as "[President Trump]'s frequent claims" rather than an undisputed fact is disingenuous at best here.
- afjl 7y agoDisclaimer: I consider myself center-left, not really a Democrat though, mostly independent. From what I have read, it's strongly in dispute. The super-delegates issue was really just a poor policy by the DNC, one that could be exploited by a strong establishment/mainstream candidate. Bernie has always been an outsider, relative to the Clintons, in that sense. Some debate questions were provided to the Clinton campaign apparently because they had asked for them, whereas the Sanders campaign had not. In retrospect, probably not a good look, regardless of whether or not he/she asked for them. Probably should have immediately released the same questions to Sanders' campaign once Clinton's received them. I feel like DWS was forced to resign because she was incompetent and directionless, and only got the job since she was a crony of establishment Dems who wanted a "friendly" to occupy the seat. This might also be me projecting, since I have a hunch that Republicans are better at mobilizing resources to achieve specific goals (e.g. judge appointments to courts of all levels, governorships), but I think I'm starting to digress so yeah.