DNC Chair Tom Perez Says the DNC “Fell Short” of Giving All Democratic Candidates “A Fair Shake” in 2016
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I know, I know. It’s election day in America, and Democrats are still fighting about last year. It’s not a great look, but this battle over the past is necessary to secure the future of a party that is more unpopular than it has been in 25 years. Whether the primary was “rigged,” “fixed,” or the Dems just “put their thumbs on the scale,” liberals seem to be united on one thesis: last year’s democratic process was made less democratic by the DNC, and yet we are still fighting over the magnitude of the rigging, and whether it violated any rigging precedent? This is bizarre.
Even the chair of the DNC, who has overseen a party that abandoned progressives in Kansas, Montana and South Carolina in favor of throwing a gajillion dollars at Jon “I will not raise taxes on rich people” Ossoff in Georgia, admits that the DNC tilted the scales last summer.
NEW: @TomPerez says the DNC “fell short” of giving all the candidates “a fair shake” in the 2016 Democratic Primary @TheDemocratspic.twitter.com/51PZQFHxW0