Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017)

[Tom Rinaldo]

219. I disagree that the DNC was right

I consider our disagreement to be a respectful one. You say " HRC was the overwhelming choice of party voters". First off, that's moving the goal post I believe, if your intention is to distinguish between registered Democrats and those who legally participated in the Democratic Party primaries and caucuses. The latter category is the one that the Democratic Party bases it's nomination upon.However, even if you chose to separate out registered Democrats from Independents voting in our primaries - then you could reasonably say that Hillary was the "clear choice" - but IMO, not the "overwhelming choice".

The DNC lost in the same way that America lost. It failed to swear in the Democratic candidate as the next President of the United States. That's the bottom line. There are many reasons for that, and Hillary would have won a fair fight, but that is still the bottom line. Perhaps another candidate would have kept Trump out of the White House. We will never know so that part is pointless to relitigate. The process we use in the future though remains relevant. But a more transparent even handed process might have brought a candidate stronger than Sanders into the race against Hillary early in the process.

I am a strong believer in the primary process, over back room deals designed to grease the skids for heir apparents.

The ideals compromised start with basic honesty. The DNC claimed to be an unbiased referee facilitating a fair and open nominating process. Meanwhile Hillary's team held sole veto power over DNC staffing, strategy and communications decisions.