This is misguided and/or disingenuous on so many levels. https://t.co/O6fSNMmfRc
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) April 13, 2016
From the Time article:
Bernie Sanders told “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore at a taping Wednesday evening that scheduling Southern states early in the Democratic primary “distorts reality.”
Sanders’ remarks came after Wilmore asked him whether he believed the Democratic primary system is “rigged.”
“Well, you know,” Sanders said, “people say, ‘Why does Iowa go first, why does New Hampshire go first,’ but I think that having so many Southern states go first kind of distorts reality as well.”
Hillary Clinton has overwhelmingly defeated Sanders in Southern primary contests. In South Carolina, the fourth state in the primary, Sanders’ margin of defeat was a landslide 48 points. A few days after that contest, Sanders lost by large margins in Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Virginia on March 1. Sanders also lost Florida and Mississippi, which vote slightly later that month.
Black voters make up a disproportionate share of the Democratic electorate in those Southern states, and constitute a voting bloc in which Sanders has consistently underperformed. The Vermont senator has been more successful in smaller, whiter and more liberal states like Maine, Washington and Minnesota. Sanders has also been able to win a slightly larger portion of black voters in northern states like Michigan and Illinois, exit polls showed…
Southerners’ votes count as much as everyone else’s—whether you won them or not. https://t.co/wI7qmvOP8A
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 14, 2016
So, Southern Democrats don’t deserve a say in their party’s nominee? https://t.co/43U68BPag9
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) April 13, 2016
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