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Before anyone says that Biden is the obvious winner, they cancelled an election.
We whine about gun rights while they take away our right to vote.
The decision to cancel New York’s Democratic presidential primary in June is sparking backlash from progressives, potentially threatening the party’s goal of unifying its voters ahead of the general election.
Progressives argue the vote from Democrats on the State Board of Elections deprives their wing of the party from voicing their preference ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.
While Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his campaign and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden earlier this month, he plans to stay on the ballots in remaining contests in an effort to gather enough delegates to exert pressure on the party to adopt more progressive platforms at the convention.
New York’s primary could have been the best opportunity for Sanders to garner a sizeable number of delegates in the remaining primaries, with 274 pledged delegates at stake. Those delegates will now go to Biden as the only candidate remaining in the presidential race.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-primary-cancellation-sparks-progressive-fury
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against New York after the state canceled its Democratic presidential primary.
The lawsuit filed by Yang and seven New Yorkers who filed to serve as his delegates to the Democratic National Convention argued the former candidate should not be taken off the ballot because he still met the requirements to stay on it. The plaintiffs say in the suit that neither Yang nor the delegates requested for the entrepreneur to be taken off the ballot.
Politico first reported the lawsuit against the New York State Board of Elections after the commission canceled the state’s presidential primary on Monday.
The suit alleges Yang’s removal “denies voters due process and denies voters the right to vote, and therefore must be invalidated removing the authority for the Defendant to take the actions complained of herein.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495171-yang-sues-over-new-york-canceling-democratic-primary
We whine about gun rights while they take away our right to vote.
The decision to cancel New York’s Democratic presidential primary in June is sparking backlash from progressives, potentially threatening the party’s goal of unifying its voters ahead of the general election.
Progressives argue the vote from Democrats on the State Board of Elections deprives their wing of the party from voicing their preference ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.
While Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his campaign and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden earlier this month, he plans to stay on the ballots in remaining contests in an effort to gather enough delegates to exert pressure on the party to adopt more progressive platforms at the convention.
New York’s primary could have been the best opportunity for Sanders to garner a sizeable number of delegates in the remaining primaries, with 274 pledged delegates at stake. Those delegates will now go to Biden as the only candidate remaining in the presidential race.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-primary-cancellation-sparks-progressive-fury
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against New York after the state canceled its Democratic presidential primary.
The lawsuit filed by Yang and seven New Yorkers who filed to serve as his delegates to the Democratic National Convention argued the former candidate should not be taken off the ballot because he still met the requirements to stay on it. The plaintiffs say in the suit that neither Yang nor the delegates requested for the entrepreneur to be taken off the ballot.
Politico first reported the lawsuit against the New York State Board of Elections after the commission canceled the state’s presidential primary on Monday.
The suit alleges Yang’s removal “denies voters due process and denies voters the right to vote, and therefore must be invalidated removing the authority for the Defendant to take the actions complained of herein.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495171-yang-sues-over-new-york-canceling-democratic-primary
