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

[StevieM]

299. This is ridiculous. The DNC did not rig the primary, nor did they have the ability to.

Clinton got more votes than Sanders. She beat him 55 to 43.

The DNC did not raise money for her or organize volunteers for her. They did not scare donors or volunteers away from Bernie Sanders. The states ran the primaries, and decided their rules, not the DNC. The state parties, not the DNC, ran the caucuses--where Bernie cleaned up. The more control the Democratic Party had over the process, the better Bernie Sanders did.

The DNC wasn't refereeing anything, the states and state parties were.

I know Bernie thought the debate schedule was unfair--but so did Hillary Clinton in 2008. And I doubt he would trade the 2016 schedule for the 2008 schedule. He got debates during the primaries when he most needed them.

Bernie lost because he got clobbered among minorities and because a lot of people didn't want to vote for a candidate who identified himself by the word socialist.

Look on the bright side: the 2020 debate schedule will almost certainly be designed in a way that best validates your historical narrative. Sanders supporters will insist on it.