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| We Don't Need No Stinkin Election: FL Dems Cancel Primary Election, Biden to Be Handed Delegates |
| 2023-12-07 |
| [MSN -StateOfTheUnion] The Florida Democratic Party has excluded Rep. Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson from the state’s primary ballot, leaving President Joe Biden as the sole candidate. The little people don't matter. Phillips and Williamson criticized the move, with Phillips calling it disenfranchising and suppressive of Democratic voters. Whoda thunk! Voter supression by the Democrats! A poll showed that 35% of registered Democrat primary voters in Florida do not support Biden. "What happened in Florida yesterday is a tragedy and a travesty. The Florida Democratic Party — just a handful of people — decided to disenfranchise millions of Democratic voters in Florida by saying, ’We’re not gonna have a presidential primary,’" said Rep. Phillips. "I’m running for president; there are others running for President as Democrats, and this is the kind of stuff that happens in Tehran, not in Tallahassee," he added. "We’ve got to do something about this," he demanded. It's settled. Biden will be the nominee and you Rubes can sit down and shut up. "I’ve been a lifelong Democrat... supported our party since I was in my 20s, been a member of Congress for three terms, and was a member of House Democratic leadership. I’ve never seen something so absurd, so disenfranchising, and so suppressive of Democratic voters," explained Rep. Phillips. The Florida Democratic Party Chair dismissed Phillips’s concerns as "conspiratorial." Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said, "We are dismayed by Dean Phillips’ conspiratorial and inappropriate comments comparing the state of Florida to the Iranian regime as part of his knee-jerk reaction to long-established procedures." Adding, "This is unbecoming of someone running for higher office." Williamson also criticized the party’s decision, calling it absurd and unconstitutional. "You have to jump through a lot of hoops to get on the ballot in states across the country, but Florida takes the cake: they won’t even let you try!" wrote Williamson on X, referencing the Sec. of State’s authority to "DECIDE who it wants to be on the ballot." "This absurd and unconstitutional display is exactly how an authoritarian state works: People are told they can vote, but are informed by someone else who their options will be," she added. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #8 And Trump is the authoritarian threat to democracy? |
| Posted by: Ruprecht 2023-12-07 13:57 |
| #7 They don't even pretend anymore. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-07 11:56 |
| #6 The trajectories of Joe’s declining, popularity, mentality and legal troubles should intersect in the spring. He will be out of office one way or another. This move just prevents anyone else from gaining delegates in preparation for a brokered convention. The primary contest would have only been a chance for an undervote protest. We will see one in a state that does have a primary and it will spread like a Chinese virus. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-07 10:19 |
| #5 Since Harris is unelectable, my bet would be that Biden runs. If (or as Dominion Voting Systems replaces with "When") Biden wins and is sworn in, he then has an 'episode' requiring him to retire and hand the keys over to Kamala. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-12-07 10:01 |
| #4 Nikki Fried is the gift that keeps on giving - to FL Republicans. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-07 08:42 |
| #3 The Party will decide who you must vote for. Here are your candidates: |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-07 05:15 |
| #2 I think it’s a brilliant idea for them to refuse to allow any other potential candidates exposure that might convince more voters that voting for a Democratic candidate is a good idea. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-07 01:01 |
| #1 It has begun. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-12-07 00:55 |