Anonymous ID: 9bfe82 March 4, 2020, 5:01 p.m. No.8320038   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0046 >>0051 >>0143 >>0171

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows by cattily advising erstwhile rival Bernie Sanders to “follow the rules” in the 2020 primary, ignoring how her own failure to do so in 2016 netted her the nomination.

 

“Let's follow the rules, we had rules last time, we have rules this time,” the two-time Democratic candidate told ABC with a cackle on Tuesday, referring derisively to Sanders’ complaints about superdelegates, the DNC-appointed convention VIPs who aren’t bound by the will of their constituents.

 

I think it’s always a good idea to follow the rules.

 

Clinton somehow managed to memory-hole the acrimonious 2016 Democratic primary contest, in which the Democratic National Committee engaged in a plethora of dirty tricks to deliver the nomination to Clinton on a silver platter.

Sanders supporters in multiple states sued the DNC for disenfranchising them when the details of just how rigged the primary had been were made public via internal DNC emails published by WikiLeaks. They accused the party of favoring Clinton and ignoring the people’s will, only to be told that the DNC could “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way” if they so chose because there was no obligation to remain neutral.

 

The “rules” agreed after Clinton lost in 2016 were a compromise that failed to satisfy Sanders and those who felt he’d been cheated out of the nomination by the party elites – a conspiracy documented in the leaked DNC emails. Instead of banning superdelegates, the party agreed to restrict them to the second ballot at the convention, meaning a candidate would have to sweep the primaries with an insurmountable delegate lead to avoid them. During last month’s primary debate, Sanders alone among the candidates called for the winner of the popular vote to become the nominee, while his rivals were willing to leave it up to the party elite.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/482259-clinton-sanders-rules-hypocrisy-primary/