This is why the repubs should never allow an “open” primary.
The dems are known for using those to get rid of the candidates they don’t want to win.
CA did it for the first time this year .. and I’m thinking about making a big stink about it.
Why “the Repubs should never allow an open primary”? Open primaries serve the incumbent leadership of both parties, as we saw in Tuesday’s Mississippi runoff. We will never see a push by either national party to institute widespread closed primaries; quite the opposite, in fact. Manipulation of primaries, particularly voting for the weakest opposition candidate, is a well-established practice. It is up to the voters in each individual state to mount campaigns within their state legislatures to close their primaries.