Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin will call for DNC officials’ neutrality to be codified in the party’s official rules and bylaws, two Democratic sources tell CNN. Martin has already been telling DNC members of his plans and will explain more in a call with members Thursday afternoon.
. . . “No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger,” Martin told reporters on a call Thursday. “Voters should decide who our primary nominees are, not DNC leadership.”
The DNC’s Rules & Bylaws committee is expected to vote on Martin’s proposal next month in a virtual meeting. If the committee approves the proposal it will advance to a full vote of the DNC membership in August.
The push for the new rule comes days after Hogg, who beat out a crowded field to become one of three DNC at-large vice chairs in February, announced his plan to help primary incumbent Democrats in safe districts through his group Leaders We Deserve. The organization plans to spend a total of $20 million in next year’s midterms supporting young people running for office.
Hogg stressed that his effort would not target Democrats in competitive districts or use any DNC resources, including voter files or donor lists. He told CNN in an interview last week that he would not endorse in the presidential primaries if he is still a DNC leader.
“I don’t take it personally,” Hogg said of the criticism of his primary challenge. “There’s a difference in strategy here, and the way that we think things need to be done.”
What spoiler effect? He was running for the Democratic nomination, not as a third party candidate. And with a very small number of vocal exceptions, everyone who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for Hillary in the general. It was her absolute failure to get independents in multiple flyover states that lost her the election. And a huge part of that is her attempt to appeal to republicans. A strategy that also failed spectacularly for Harris in 2024.
The spoiler effect is when a candidate has an effect on the election even without winning. People still say Bernie Sanders should have been president, and yes that would have been a much better outcome, but the fact is that Hillary Clinton winning the general also would have been a much better outcome but those same Bernie Sanders supporters writhe at Hillary’s mere mention even after he endorsed her.
People exist who literally don’t trust the DNC as an establishment because “they did Bernie dirty”. And that is exactly what the Russians and the Tankies wanted to happen. Mission accomplished.
I don’t follow Russian propaganda and I’m not a tankie. And I know for a fact that the DNC did Bernie dirty. And that’s why I don’t trust the DNC. That’s not a problem caused by Bernie, that’s a problem caused by the DNC being a shady organization.
And blaming Bernie for Hillary’s loss in 2016 is just idiotic because Bernie had nothing to do with Hillary losing the general in 2016, that was all on her. She’s the one who failed to get the votes. There may have been vocal Bernie bros who were talking about how they didn’t want to vote for her but most of the people who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for her in the general. That’s because people who voted in the primary are politically engaged. The problem is that Hillary failed to get those who are not politically engaged on board with voting for her. And the people like you who blame Bernie for her loss are part of the problem not part of the solution. You make excuses for her and you make excuses for Kamala Harris and you make excuses for people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy pelosi who have basically ceded the entire Congress to the Republicans in exchange for keeping the meager power that they currently hold. Because that’s all they care about.