[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by molson

Who exactly are these "party elites" that apparently rigging these procedures against Sanders? Those are pretty serious allegations. Seems like it should be a bigger deal, something that even non-Sanders supporters should be enraged about, members of their own party rigging the process.

I only don't see that Sanders is SO different than other candidates that he's worth engaging in massive corruption by the Democrats to keep out of office. Though I can understand why Trump loves to bring it up.

There are a lot of examples but lets take this one for example. Bernie had some good momentum going. Here's what the state party did at the convention.
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The state convention was held in May as the final stage of the delegate selection process. Just days prior to the convention, the Nevada Democratic Party drew up a series of rule changes to award Nevada's delegates to the winner of the 1st tier (Clinton) instead of the 2nd tier (Sanders) and to give the Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, final say on all voice votes at the convention. Sanders supporters felt that the rule changes unfairly benefited Clinton and attempted to submit several motions and petitions to block them, to no avail. In addition, 64 Sanders delegates were ejected for not having "proper credentials," thereby putting Clinton delegates in the majority, which Sanders supporters also decried as unfair. Motions for delegate recounts were subsequently ignored. Furthermore, video footage of the voice votes to pass the rule changes and delegate counts demonstrated louder nay votes, yet Lange declared that the "ayes have it" and quickly adjourned the meeting, much to the disapproval of Sanders supporters. The police then moved in and ordered everyone to leave under threat of arrest.^[2]

The Nevada State Democratic Party claimed to possess video footage of violent acts by Sanders supporters, yet did not release the footage. Lange also claimed to receive death threats and threats to the lives of her family, yet provided no evidence to substantiate her claims. Wikileaks later revealed that the DNC deliberately pushed the narrative of violent Sanders supporters in order to discredit the Sanders campaign.^[3][4]

And you can see it in video form here.

Nevada is next

so i would like to remind you all what happened in Nevada in 2016 pic.twitter.com/MeXprxYO7E

— june (@shoe0nhead) February 12, 2020