This is coming after some state parties are considering having no primaries at all:
And after the RNC has decided to completely merge it’s 2020 efforts with the Trump campaign:
It will be very interesting to see eventual Republican efforts to disentangle from the Trump brand after all of this. It really is the party of Trump, for now.
Irrespective of what you think of Trump, any political party tying itself this closely to one candidate and even considering disallowing challenges to their status is reeeeally dumb and potentially dangerous.
It wasn’t “supposed”. The DNC did rig the primaries for Hillary.
I very much oppose the RNC doing what the OP says it’s doing. Trump needs to be subject to primary challenges.
I can only think of once that primarying an incumbent has mattered- 1968. It forced LBJ out.
If you are speaking of the emails that were leaked by the Russians, the complaints that DNC staffers were making about Sanders were because she had already locked up the delegates and there was no path to victory for him but he still refused to drop out.
Yet another case where Russian disinfo still persists to this day.
Donna Brazil giving the question was bad… and she got fired for it.
But also, when one looks at what the heads up Brazil gave as to what the question was likely to be one would see that she gave the topics that were to be discussed in and instance the Death Penalty and another about Lead Poisoning for a debate taking place in Flint Michigan.
It’s not like brazil dropped any huge bombshell.
What she did was really really stupid and underhanded and she rightfully was called out for it.
But I think that it is hard to argue, given the content that she really tipped anyone off to any surprise questions.
…and THAT is just what we know about thanks to an electronic paper trail…
The R are no utopian actors, but corruption seems to be better suited to the DNC.
Ironically Trump is too inexperienced and hyper involved with himself to play these corrupt games.
Simply put, his own political stupidity makes him a mostly honest player. Doesn’t mean he does not talk BS in public, just that he does not take the time, nor trust in co-conspirators to rig any system behind the scenes.
