Jane Sanders, wife to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), said Thursday that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has a point when he says the nomination process for both parties need to be fixed.
“Now, Donald Trump has a point. The electoral process — the way it is conducted now in both parties is not good, it is not democratic, it is not smart,” Sanders said on Fox Business Network. “We want to change the electoral process by having there be open primaries, same day registration. If independents could vote there is no doubt that the results in the democratic process at least would be very different.”
Both Jane and Bernie Sanders have complained about the nomination process and how delegates are awarded. Trump his criticisms a step further, saying the process is “rigged” and “biased.”
Jane Sanders also again railed against the superdelegate system.
“It doesn’t seem fair that superdelegates can play such an outsized role. I mean, you know, we learned in a democracy one person, one vote. Evidently not in the primary system,” she said.
It’s getting disturbing how often Sanders supporters agree with Republicans.
As usual I was trying to find the stupidest part of the statement to comment on but nothing stood out from the rest.
Mrs. Sanders is becoming a whining sore loser. First of all, Sen Sanders will never get a majority of the Super Delegates so they are irrelevant here, and Sec Clinton will win outright with the pledge delegates anyway.
I am curious. Why shouldn’t a political party, e.g., the Democrats, have the right to set up THEIR nominating process they way they want? What is non-democratic about a party having its own rules when it comes to selecting ITS candidate?
Sen Sanders wasn’t interested in the Democratic Party until he thought he decided to run for its nomination. Now suddenly he - or at least his wife - think they should have a say over how that party chooses its nominee?
Amazing how the Sanders campaign simultaneously complains about the super delegates and pleads for their vote.
If it wasn’t for a super delegate system, Sanders’s chances would plummet to 0. His own campaign manager has said the way they hope to win is by convincing super delegates to vote for Sanders.
Sanders has lost primaries in all regions of the country, he has lost the popular vote, and he has lost pledged delegates. The only thing that he has won is caucuses, which in practice is the least democratic form of elections possible.
It seems reasonable for democrats to select their nominee. Why should anyone else, i.e. independents, have a role in this process?