Hilary Clinton plays hardball regarding the Michigan and Florida delegations. This from the NYT:”
“Reflecting how tense the situation has become, influential fund-raisers for Senator Hilary Rodham Cllnton have stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure on national party leaders to resolve the matter, with some even threatening to withhold their donations to the Democratic National Committee unless it seats the delegates from the two states or holds new primaries there.”
Presumably, fundraisers for Clinton are not making such threats without their candidate’s approval.
Ironically, the DNC penalized both Florida and Michigan, refusing to seat their delegates, because, in violation of party rules, they held their primaries early. Both Florida and Michigan did that because party leaders in those states believed they were going to have little or probably no effect on deciding who the nominee would be if their primaries were held too late. That was then. If both states do do-overs, their votes might be actually be pivotal. Of course, Super Tuesday was once long ago going to decide the race… Then Texas, Ohio, and New Hampshire were supposed to…
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