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

[Jim Lane]

278. But this agreement was signed in 2015, before one single vote had been cast.

Obviously the DNC would work hand-in-glove with the nominee's campaign after the convention.

Obviously (well, it's obvious to me, anyway), the DNC should not favor one campaign over another while the race is still going on, such as in 2015 when all this happened.

There's arguably a gray area when the race is going on, in the sense that millions of Democrats haven't yet gotten the chance to vote, but it's over, because we have a "mathematically clinched" argument. I personally lean toward respecting the voters at least while any primaries are yet to be held, but I can see an argument the other way.

In this context, however, the "gray area" that began in or about March is irrelevant. The deal was done much earlier, when its impropriety was clear.