Perez dismisses Trump's claim that DNC race was rigged

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By MADELINE CONWAY 02/26/17 09:44 AM EST

Tom Perez, the newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman, on Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the race to lead the party was “rigged” in his favor.

Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to assert that the DNC race, which ended with Perez’s election by party leaders in Atlanta on Saturday, “was, of course, totally ‘rigged.’” And, referring to the runner-up and favorite of the party’s progressive wing, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, Trump added, "Bernie's guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!”

Perez dismissed Trump's tweet to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. “Congressman Ellison and I got a good kick out of that,” Perez said. “Donald Trump, up in the morning tweeting about us. You know, our unity as a party is our greatest strength and it’s his worst nightmare.” Perez was the favorite of many allies of former President Barack Obama, including former Vice President Joe Biden, but Hillary Clinton did not make an endorsement in the race.

Sen. Bernie Sanders also dismissed the tweet, speaking to Tapper a few minutes later. “No, he doesn’t have a point,” Sanders said, referring to Trump’s claim that the process was rigged against Ellison, whom Sanders had endorsed. The Minnesota Democrat had been a strong supporter of Sanders during the primary season.




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[caroldansen]

1. Thank you for the information. Perez is a good person to bring unity to the party.

Believe in his values, even if you wanted someone else.

[lambchopp59]

2. The Donald has entered "rigged" into the RWNJ's buzz word vocabulary

Certainly DT has proven that empirical facts mean nothing to him, espousing any actual facts would turn off the alt-right, and every day he feels he must babble some nonsense that keeps the lowest common denominator of RW mouthpieces busy spinning conspiracy garbage about the "evil" left.

[Cha]

3. "Congressman Ellison and I got a good kick out of that, Perez said. Donald Trump, up in the

morning tweeting about us. You know, our unity as a party is our greatest strength and it’s his worst nightmare.”

Great retort to the stupid one

[StevieM]

4. I think Donald must be thinking of the 2016 GE, which the FBI rigged for him. (eom)

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Donnie wanted Keith just so

he could keep his Radical Muslim Terrorist theme alive. Watch how these suckers try a similiar anti Hispanic tag on Perez. Frank Luntz most likely has Focus Grouped Donnie's new hate message.

[NastyRiffraff]

6. Dump, being inconsistent again.

He previously tweeted that he was HAPPY that Perez won. Now the election was "rigged." Of course in that mass of squirming cells that is his brain "election" and "rigged" just go together.