They might as well. It’s not like the popular vote actually means anything anyway. Other than to say “see, we let you vote.” The popular vote didn’t elect Trump. The electoral college did.
Yep, that is all explained in the article for anyone who cares to read it and wants to be honest about it. Its not a new Trump “authoritarian” thing.
Still, I had not heard of this before, and I’m glad Texas doesn’t do it. Even if it is just a formality, people should be allowed an input into the nomination of the major parties.
Oh, and Arizona Democrats dropped the primary in 2012.
Two thoughts. Political parties can choose their candidate in any manner they wish. What hurt Hillary wasn’t rigging the primary, it was rigging it against a popular challenger, no such thing exists here. If someone that had the support level Bernie did existed and the GOP pulled this it would hurt them too.
And I say that as someone who really can’t believe Trump isn’t facing a strong challenge to his incumbency from a more popular and rational GOP pol.
I want choices…if there is a viable republican challenger, I want to be able to vote for a republican to defeat Trump. If not, I will have to defeat him by voting for a democrat.
I also want a GOP choice on primary ballot to begin the process of voting out Trump who I see as hurting the GOP brand.
However I can’t commit to voting for a Democrat at this stage, it will depend on who wins the DEM nomination. If it’s someone in the vein of Clinton, I’ll do what I did in 2016 by voting GOP - with a write-in ballot for someone other than Trump. If the DEM nominee is more of centrist and it looks like Congress will remain split between parties, then I just might vote for a DEM nominee.
(NOTE: I started voting in 1978 and have ALWAYS voted GOP. Prior to 2016 is was the GOP nominee. In 2016 is was a GOP write-in.)
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Democrats love to waste other people’s money. Just another example of that here, but this time they’re peeved because the GoP is saving their money to use it to slay socialism in the US. The article is desperately trying to paint Trump as a Hillarian primary cheat, when things are running the same as many other second term presidential bids. The article was also lacking in any facts to support claims of Trump putting up barriers.