HRC would have been nominated without the superdelegates...that proves we don't NEED them.

[Ken Burch]

85. Nobody in our 2016 cycle was artificially boosted by Republicans, though.

And there's no reason to be launching into any line of argument NOW about who should or should not have been in our 2016 primaries. Let's just accept that every candidate in those was legitimate and that the nomination was settled and that all of that is in the past.

The only thing that matters now is the future. It can't make the future better to insinuate that any past Democratic primary candidacies were in any way illegitimate or the result of Republican interference.

All that matters is future elections, and we can't produce any better outcome in any future election by obsessing on trying to retroactively discredit any past candidacies.

And it does damage to try to discredit past candidacies, because we can only win if we bring in everybody who had a side in the 2016 primaries, everybody who wanted to vote in the fall but was suppressed, and all the nonvoters who felt they weren't represented.

Please just let the 2016 primaries go already. The primaries were not the cause of Trump.