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Martin O’Malley Accuses DNC of ‘Rigging’ 2016 Primaries for Hillary
Democratic presidential candidate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee. (AP / Jim Mone)
Democratic presidential candidate and former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley told his fellow Democrats at the Democratic National Committee’s annual summer meeting on Friday that their party’s process for nominating a candidate for the 2016 presidential election was “rigged” in favor of Hillary Clinton.
O’Malley is frustrated that the committee has scheduled just four debates before the first primary vote in Iowa, and just six debates in all. By contrast, the Republican party has 12 primary debates.
Scheduling so few debates before the Iowa primary gives voters little time to develop opinions about the candidates based on the candidates’ unscripted confrontations with each other. This makes political advertising more decisive in shaping voter perception of the candidates.
The Guardian reports:
“The Republicans stand before the nation, malign our president’s record of achievements, denigrate women and immigrant families, double down on trickle-down, and tell their false story,” the former Maryland governor said. “We respond with crickets, tumbleweeds and a cynical move to delay and limit our own party debates.”
His presidential rival Bernie Sanders reportedly told journalists that he agreed with O’Malley that the primary process was rigged.
“One debate in Iowa. That’s it. One debate in New Hampshire,” O’Malley said, adding that the New Hampshire debate was “cynically wedged into the high point of the holiday shopping season so as few people watch it as possible”. Parts of his speech demanding debates received standing ovations from the crowd.
After he spoke, there was frost in the air between O’Malley and the DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as the governor left the podium, which led many on Twitter to believe that she snubbed him. In fact, they did shake hands – but with visible enmity.
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— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) August 28, 2015
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—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/martin_omalley_accuses_dnc_of_rigging_the_2016_primary_for_hillary_20150829/
