When it comes to public life, Democrats are aggressively calling for a shutdown of everything. Except their own primaries.
A new memo from the Democratic National Committee panel that handles delegate selection for the presidential nomination warns that states that hastily change the “first determining step” of their own process could be subject to penalties – including a 50% reduction in delegates – if they hold primaries after a June cut-off date.
The memo also says the panel is looking at ways to adjust how delegates are selected in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Three states will hold primaries on Tuesday. A fourth, Ohio, postponed its vote on Monday, due to Covid-19 and its drastic effect on public life. Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia and Maryland have also postponed their votes.
While Sanders supporters will view this as a way of rigging the process, a bunch of these are southern states that would be cakewalks for Biden.
Why is the DNC going this route? Obviously politics. Not so much the Biden vs. Bernie thing, which is all but settled, but the eagerness to get the whole thing over with, have a designated candidate and prepare for the election. And the coronavirus is not going to stop that.
When the Democrats attack President Trump, they should have to answer why they’re pushing for something as unsafe as continuing the primary season for purely political reasons, while threatening state parties that don’t go along with their schedule?
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