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The DNC has dropped the donor requirement at the last minute for their upcoming debates. The motivation for this appears to be to make a way for Michael Bloomberg to become eligible, as he has said he is not taking donations
The Democratic National Committee eliminated Friday a fundraising requirement to qualify for the February debate in Las Vegas, potentially paving the way for former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to make the stage for the first time.
Under the new criteria, candidates can meet either a delegates threshold or a polling threshold to qualify for the Feb. 19 debate in Las Vegas, just three days before the Nevada caucuses. Specifically, candidates must have been allocated at least one pledged delegate at the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary.
Candidates can also qualify by reaching 10 percent support in at least four national polls or surveys of South Carolina and Nevada released between Jan. 15 and Feb. 18. Alternatively, a candidate can qualify for the debate by reaching 12 percent support in two sanctioned national or early-state surveys.
Bloomberg has been self-funding his campaign and has failed to reach the fundraising thresholds for previous debates. But now with fundraising barrier removed, Bloomberg might join Democrats on stage for the first time.
Someone among the Democrat leaders might decide to tag Bloomberg as the "Citizens United" candidate. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Also, there have been other candidates that have earlier failed to qualify to participate in earlier debates because they did not achieve the donor threshold. But apparently since Bloomberg has a donor base of one, with an effectively unlimited budget, that is different.
Bernie Sanders weighs in. And you can bet the Bernie Bros are all over this one.
DNC Members are apparently discussing a change to the convention voting rules to reverse the reforms made a couple of years ago with regards to superdelegates. There has been discussion of re-allowing superdelegates to vote on the first ballot - I think they account for about 15% of all delegates - apparently for the purpose of stopping Sanders from winning the nomination.
A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention.
In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.
“I do believe we should re-open the rules. I hear it from others as well,” one DNC member said in a text message last week to William Owen, a DNC member from Tennessee who does not support re-opening the rules. Owen, who declined to identify the member, said the member added in a text that “It would be hard though. We could force a meeting or on the floor.”
Even proponents of the change acknowledge it is all but certain not to gain enough support to move past these initial conversations. But the talks reveal the extent of angst that many establishment Democrats are feeling on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
No decision has been reached, but surely they will not do this. Will they? The stench of corruption will be so intense that the DNC would not be able to cleanse themselves of it for a very long time. And many Bernie supporters would surely refuse to support the nominee for the Democrats if it was someone other than Sanders in these circumstances. It would be a pyrrhic victory for the DNC establishment, that is for sure. And what would the longer term damage be to party?
DNC Members are apparently discussing a change to the convention voting rules to reverse the reforms made a couple of years ago with regards to superdelegates. There has been discussion of re-allowing superdelegates to vote on the first ballot - I think they account for about 15% of all delegates - apparently for the purpose of stopping Sanders from winning the nomination.
No decision has been reached, but surely they will not do this. Will they? The stench of corruption will be so intense that the DNC would not be able to cleanse themselves of it for a very long time. And many Bernie supporters would surely refuse to support the nominee for the Democrats if it was someone other than Sanders in these circumstances. It would be a pyrrhic victory for the DNC establishment, that is for sure. And what would the longer term damage be to party?
It would be colossally stupid to weewee off the Bernie Bros again like they did in 2016, so naturally, they'll do it.
Bernie cannot beat Trump and Trump knows that. That’s why Trump and the RW want Bernie to be the candidate.
Staywarm, this is superdelegate reversal talk is NOT directly related to Trump. Not sure why you respond about Trump when it's between Bernie (the progressive) vs. the Establishment within the Democrat Party.
If they did move forward with this reversal, they'd rather have the party suffer than go with the will of the voters.
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