Hillary Would Like To See All Delegate Slots Returned To Michigan, Florida
Of course, she feels that way now after she won in Michigan unopposed and is currently leading in Florida.
This is a very, very, very big deal. From the Clinton campaign:
I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee.
I believe our nominee will need the enthusiastic support of Democrats in these states to win the general election, and so I will ask my Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan. I know not all of my delegates will do so and I fully respect that decision. But I hope to be President of all 50 states and U.S. territories, and that we have all 50 states represented and counted at the Democratic convention.
I hope my fellow potential nominees will join me in this.
I will of course be following the no-campaigning pledge that I signed, and expect others will as well.
This is the sort of decision that has the potential to tear the party apart.
Well, yeah. If the Democratic National Committee retroactively gives Michigan and Florida all of their delegates back (both states had half of their delegates removed after they moved their primary dates up without the DNC’s consent) after Hillary wins it will be a blatant act of favoritism for the Clintons. Not to mention a decidedly un-democratic maneuver for the party which calls itself the “Democratic” one.
If the DNC had decided to do this before one of the states had held its primary there would be no problem. All of the candidates would have been given an equal amount of time to respond to the news and campaign accordingly. But doing it after a primary has been held in one state just favors the person who one that state. A point that’s especially important since Hillary ran basically unopposed in Michigan.
Part of me actually wouldn’t mind seeing the Democrats tear themselves apart over this. But the other part of me, the one interested in a fair and transparent political process, thinks this would be a terrible thing.
