House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) allowed that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have a “legitimate complaint” about the way the Democratic National Committee treated him during the primary race.
Yet she pointed to the concessions made at this week’s Philadelphia convention to assuage their concerns and the high stakes of this election to urge them to get behind Hillary Clinton.
“In terms of how he has been treated at this point, they should have no complaint and many of them are declaring victory in that regard,” Pelosi said on MSNBC Monday night.
DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) stepped down and was kept from gaveling the convention in on Monday, and Sanders’ opening night speaking spot was rescheduled for prime time.
These compromises came after Wikileaks released emails that showed top DNC officials mocking and criticizing the Vermont senator’s campaign, bolstering theories that the committee always had its thumb on the scales for Clinton.
“In terms of how the DNC may have treated him along the way, they may have a legitimate complaint,” Pelosi said.
The House Minority Leaders maintained that voters were faced with a clear choice between the two major party nominees, however.
“Griping about that is a luxury our country cannot afford when we have such a drastic difference between Democrats and Republicans, between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,” she said.
She’s trying to placate the little babies. it won’t work; they are too dumb to understand.
It is stupid comments like yours that keep the pot stired. Most are already on board. Nancy said exactly the right things. Your diparaging comments not so much,baby. Remember Trump would rather go bankrupt than pay you.
All she did was speak a simple truth.
Dear Ms Kirkland,
A note on modal verbs:
There is a class of verbs in English called modals. All the auxiliary verbs except be, do and have are called modals. Modals generally change the mode of an expression from indicative to conditional, potential, or the like. One of these is may. It is used to express possibility: It may rain, there may be something in what you say, they may have a legitimate complaint, etc.
The statement “they may have a legitimate complaint” is thus different from “they have a legitimate complaint”. The may changes the statement from a statement of fact to a statement of possibility. To then say “Pelosi Calls Sanders Supporters’ Complaints About DNC ‘Legitimate’” is a distortion when what should have been said was “Pelosi Say Sanders Supporters’ may have ‘Legitimate Complaints’ About DNC”.
I just thought you’d like to know this.
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighborhood grammar Nazi
“May” have a legitimate complaint? The Democratic Party apparatchiks are trying their damndest to pin this on Russia and Trump, so people ignore what’s actually in those emails:
DNC sought to hide details of Clinton funding deal