Posted on 11/04/2017 12:22:08 PM PDT by springwater13
Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clinton’s fainting spell, in part because Clinton’s campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure.”
In an explosive new memoir, Brazile details widespread dysfunction and dissension throughout the Democratic Party, including secret deliberations over using her powers as interim DNC chair to initiate the process of removing Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) from the ticket after Clinton’s Sept. 11, 2016, collapse in New York City.
Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”
Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a well-intentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with “stiff” and “stupid” messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where “someone had died.”
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My thoughts as well.
Haha. Now that stinks. lol
She should’ve thought of the repercussions before writing the book.
So Donna Brazziere gets to personally pick major party candidates. Good to know.
Apparently, she had some such authority, as chairman of the Democrat party.
Remember in 1972, when the Democrats replaced Eagleton as the VP nominee with Sargent Shriver, after the Democrat convention? I don’t know the ins and outs, but both parties have provisions to make changes to their nominees after the conventions have nominated candidates.
In this case, the enemy of my enemy is not might friend. Yeah, I’m glad to see the left starting to turn on each other, but this righteous routine from the self serving, corrupt Donna Brazile is getting old. She’s a corrupt elitist who cares nothing about justice. This is all self serving posturing on her part. When the Clinton’s go down, Brazile needs to go down with her.
BTW, what power is Brazile pretending to have when she says she contemplated replacing Hillary with Biden? She’s just another mid level crook in the corrupt DNC machine. She had no power or ability to replace Clinton with Biden as the nominee.
Darn. What a missed opportunity.
I wonder just how, exactly, Brazile thinks a party chairman can replace a nominee who has a majority of the delegates? Talk Hillary into stepping down? But then the DNC, not the chairman unilaterally, would make the replacement.
ya, all of this seems like shots across the bow, to castrate the Clintons pre-emptively, so that Hillary will not even enter the 2020 race.
I thought it was the voters that choose who got the nomination
These party chairs are a hoot. As if THEY can pick the candidates that will run and get nominated.
But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her.
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Stupid women.
Kaine was doing immeasurable damage to Xlinton. Most people look at those brown, crooked teeth, the lisp and the pedophile countenance with disdain. Xlinton has horrible judgement thinking he’d be an asset or would do any good at all
Where would DB get that kind of power? I thought billary owned the DNC.
He has psycho eyes, too.
This I did not know, Dilbert San Diego. Thank you for mentioning it.
BTW, what power is Brazile pretending to have when she says she contemplated replacing Hillary with Biden? She’s just another mid level crook in the corrupt DNC machine. She had no power or ability to replace Clinton with Biden as the nominee.
both parties have provisions to replace presidential and vice presidential nominees, after those nominees have been selected at the party conventions.
Remember how Eagleton was replaced in 1972, after the Democrat convention, and the VP nomination given to Sargent Shriver instead? There are rarely used procedures, in both parties, whereby a candidate for office can be replaced.
So she wrote it in her book but is now taking it back LOL..
Maybe the Dems know she will soon be indicted and want to get as far away from her as possible
I thought it was the voters that choose who got the nomination
we, as voters, choose delegates to the party conventions, who in turn select the nominees.
We do not directly nominate presidential candidates within the two major parties.
Just as we don’t vote directly for president in the general election, but are voting for electors to the electoral college, when we vote in presidential primaries, we are voting for delegates to the convention, who in turn nominate the candidates.
Hillary treated Donna like crap.
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