Posted on 02/01/2020 9:39:14 AM PST by Hojczyk
“In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention,” Politico reported. “Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.”
Politico noted that it’s an uphill battle for those who want the rule change, but that “the talks reveal the extent of angst that many establishment Democrats are feeling on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.”
“The decision to relegate superdelegates – now called ‘automatic delegates’ – to the second ballot in a contested convention consumed the DNC for nearly two years after the 2016 election. Superdelegates overwhelmingly sided with Hillary Clinton, infuriating Sanders’ supporters,” Politico added. “The rule change was widely viewed as a major victory for the Democratic Party’s left flank. At the time, Perez called the delegate overhaul ‘historic,’ while progressive Democrats and many moderates lauded its appeal to young voters skeptical of centralized party power.”
The Democrat Party has already started to put its thumb on the scales with new rules that it announced that favored Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
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Do it!
Go for it. You want more Trump, this is how you get more Trump.
Makes me want to vote for Bernie in the primary.
BS really has no basis to complain about this. After all, he’s not a democrat
Kyle Jurek is busy making Molotov cocktails in his basement.
Will Bernie get an even bigger house this time?
The crooked dnc will do everything and anything to stop Bernie from getting the nomination.
Hell, they’ve already changed the debate rules for old man Bloomberg... when they refused to do it for anyone else.
If Bernie is the nominee he will get all the votes from the crazy people and normal people will vote for Trump.
If they kick Bernie out the crazy people will stay home and normal people will vote for Trump.
Democrat establishment doesn’t want a Trump Mini Me to win the Democrat presidential nomination.
They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure it never happens. Democrat rigging at its nastIest.
It will be like the recent British election. Corbyn is basically the British “Bernie”.
YES!
Schism the left...
Hope they do. With the support BS has from the Leftists who will demand he do so, he’ll have no choice but to run as a third party!
BUT if Bernie loses how are we going to get all our free stuff?
If Bernie has the most delegates going into the convention with Bloomberg and Biden in second and third place, there will be a riot if he loses the nomination on the second or third ballot to the billionaire Bloomberg. It will shatter the vile Democratic Party. Trump hate is no super glue.
You’re exactly right. The guy thumbs his nose at the Democratic Party by sitting in the Senate as an independent ... and then expects them to sit back and let them win the party’s presidential nomination? LOL.
The Democratic Party leaders are not “democrats” with a small “d”, in that, they don’t want their nominee selected through the democratic process of primary elections.
They want a good old fashioned smoke filled room full of big wigs fingering their nominee at the convention.
LOVE IT!! Milwaukee will burn (yes, actually burn) if they do it.
Break out the popcorn!!
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