The DNC announced on Friday that it would be moving forward with a new rule that would in affect, block Bernie Sanders from becoming the Democrat’s nominee in 2020:
The Democratic National Committee announced on Friday that it would be moving forward with a new proposal that would prevent any candidate who isn’t a Democrat from winning the Democratic presidential nomination. The rule would likely shut Senator Bernie Sanders out of the running in 2020.
Sanders, who officially declared himself an Independent in October of 2017, has been at odds with the DNC since it was revealed that the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged in favor of his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
When Clinton loyalist Tom Perez was elected to head the organization — following the ouster of former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the interim leadership of Donna Brazile, both of whom were connected to Hillary Clinton — he tried to reunite the party by taking on Sanders supporter Keith Ellison as his co-chair.
More on the DNC rule change:
DNC Chairman Tom Perez on Tuesday floated a proposal to eliminate superdelegates on a presidential primary’s first voting ballot, the Washington Post reported. Party leaders would vote only if the contest required a second ballot.
“You had superdelegates voting for Hillary Clinton in states that I won pretty handsomely,” Sanders told Post this week. “And now there is agreement among Tom Perez and our people, and a lot of the Clinton people, to say we should reduce the number of superdelegates.”
Still, the rule change left some Sanders supporters puzzled as to why Democrats would want to make their party less inclusive.
“We just came off a devastating presidential loss in 2016,” Mark Longabaugh, a senior adviser to Sanders’ 2016 campaign, told Yahoo News. “It would seem to me the actual impetus would be to expand the Democratic Party. I, just for the life of me, don’t see any motivation for this beyond personal spite.”
While this rule might upset Bernie fans it does seem quite reasonable to me.
After all only a Republican should win the GOP nomination for president, and it makes sense the same would apply to Democrats.
If Bernie really wants to run in 2020, he should either officially become a Democrat, run a third party candidacy or just walk away.
Personally, would like to see Bernie get the Democratic party’s 2020 nomination.
After all a message like the one below would do wonders for Trump’s re-election campaign!
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