I have always supported Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts). She is a good progressive, and I agree with most of her stands on national policy -- especially economic policy.But yesterday, she greatly disappointed me. On CNN, she said she thought the DNC had rigged the primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton in 2016. She offered no proof of that ridiculous allegation. Evidently she based the allegation on excerpts from a book by Donna Brazile -- where she said that the DNC was a financial mess under Wasserman, and that Clinton has given a lot of money to the DNC to keep it solvent.
I don't see Clinton donating money to the DNC as proof that the primaries were rigged. Sanders could (and should) have also donated money to the DNC, but chose not to do so. That was his right. But accusing the DNC of rigging the election because they were helped financially by Clinton requires some proof of rigging -- and Sanders, Warren and Brazile have offered no proof. All they have is accusations.
I challenge them to name a single action the DNC took to help Clinton in the primaries. There was none. The DNC didn't do anything for Clinton that wasn't also done for Sanders. It didn't do any ads favoring Clinton. It never publicly endorsed Clinton, And it never took any action to rig any state's primary or caucus for Clinton. Clinton won the Democratic primary fair and square -- and she won because millions more Democrats wanted her as their candidate over Sanders.
Warren has deeply disappointed me with this spurious accusation against her own party. Unless she walks it back, and apologizes, I doubt I could ever cast a vote for her (if she was to run for president in 2020).
