WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have set their 2020 presidential nominating convention for the middle of July.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says in a statement that party will convene July 13-16 to a get a head start on the general election campaign. Democrats are expecting a bruising primary with perhaps two dozen candidates vying to take on President Donald Trump.
Perez also says that he is committed to “the most open, fair, transparent and inclusive” nominating process Democrats have seen. Activists on the left still harbor resentments over favoritism party officials showed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in 2016.
Officials also still are debating what influence party power players known as superdelegates will have in the vote to pick a presidential nominee.
Democrats have yet to decide where they will convene.
I’m not sure about that choice of words: “Bruising.” It could be a very healthy thing to have a lot of competition for the nomination. I think every day the news cameras are pointed at Democratic candidates debating what policies would be best for the country is a good day for the party.
How about “lively?” “Boisterous?” The party is expecting a lively, boisterous primary.
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Better fix:
They’re shutting the stable door after the horse is gone. And the horse wasn’t even stolen through an open stable door. It escaped when the barn was set on fire.
Big deal. Trump will have suspended the elections and proclaimed himself God Emperor by then, after which climate change will turn the Earth into a giant desert and Trump will transform himself into a giant sandworm and control once and for all the galactic supply of melange…