HOW THE DNC RIGGED THE CONVENTION

Bran DeGraff
5 min readNov 6, 2017

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“The 2016 Convention failed to unite the Democratic Party after it was openly rigged against Bernie Sanders. Before the Convention, WikiLeaks would reveal that the DNC sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign.”

“Bernie did not win the first round. There was only one vote for the role call and Hillary won. She had almost 400 more pledged delegates than Bernie did.I don’t know where the rumors of Bernie winning started, but he didn’t. He lost the role call but I was told they read the results WITH super delegates rather than one without and one with. I don’t know if this is outside the rules but they seem to have made their own rules” — Daniel Clark 2018 Candidate for US House of Iowa

(Map indicates that voters were both divided on both candidates, but the results would prove Hillary Clinton to be the weaker of the two candidates after she would go on to lose to Donald Trump)

A Florida Bernie Sanders Delegate recalls her time at the convention: How were you treated at the convention?

BC De Graff: “How were you treated at the convention?”

Jenn Powell: “There is also another link at the bottom of that article that has another delegates report. There is also another link at the bottom of that article that has another delegates report. It’s still painful to relive. I don’t think it’s anything we will ever get over. But it keeps us working within the party (we live in a closed primary state) to ensure it never happens to any delegates in the future.

BC De Graff: “What moment will always stick with you?”

Jenn Powell:: “How the Hillary delegates chanted “USA, USA” over our chants of “No more war”. The anti war protest began as a silent protest, us just holding up peace signs. When we were forcibly blocked from the TV cameras, and flags draped over us to hide our protest is when the Bernie delegates became vocal chanting No More War.

The day they nominated Hillary, and delegates walked out, we knew, from our work on the ground during the primary, that Trump would win.

We heard it over and over. Republicans were not going to cast a vote, and i quote “for a Clinton, EVER”. Those same republicans respected Bernie.”

BC De Graff: “Were you Bernie or Bust?”

Jenn Powell: “I was a huge defender of anyone who chose to cast their vote for a 3rd party. I despise “vote shaming”.

This is what democracy looks like.

I hope the Democratic Party learns from its mistakes. I’m currently managing a congressional campaign, Tom Wells is a Berniecrat running against a tea party/freedom caucus republican in Florida’s 3rd Congressional district. We hope to offer up candidates people don’t have to hold their noses to vote for.

I also ran for city commission in March, I filed on the last day against a democratic incumbent who had opposed a living wage. My campaign was 47 days, i raised and spent less than $10k and got 45.6% of the vote. Not enough for a win, but we gave them a run for their money with an all volunteer campaign.”

Bernie Sanders won both Indiana and Michigan, States that would go to Hillary Clinton at the Convention. These states would also go to Donald Trump in the Election. This is how utterly ignorant the DNC is. They refuse to accept defeat on the things they cannot win, but stubbornly persist and fail over and over again into a viscous cycle of bad policies and voter neglect.

(“ Because security was stripping all of the Bernie people of our signs and everything, we had to get creative. My sign ended up being like 20+ tall. When the roll call came to Iowa, and the frame/focus was on the HRC delegation saying how many delegates there were- I shoved a Bernie sign right in front of the camera so that WE could be represented. I was elected to the convention to represent the 4th district of Iowa and I kept my promise. It was abusive. Absolutely. Many people suffered trauma from the convention. Some people say post convention traumatic disorder. National roll call numbers were announced for each state. HRC people swarmed the Mic with like a 15 foot radius around the Mic and our Chair, Andi McGuire. Iowa was a 50/50 state. There were no Bernie allowed up at the Mic. When Bernie folks asked the chair as a sign of unity to allow half of the roll call shot to be half Bernie folks. She did nothing. I stood right in front of the group with my Bernie sign. The hrc people were saying nasty things about me and knew I could hear because they were within 3feet. “Who is she? What has she done?” I told them I’ve knocked on more doors and made more calls in more states than any of them every did. They piped it down a little. When it came time for Iowa to be televised, I kept getting closer and closer to the group and closer to the camera shot. They were pushing me to get out of the way. When the Iowa delegation was being announced, I shoved the Bernie sign in front of the camera.” — Jesica Butler (Bernie Sanders Delegate)

The DNC Convention on the first day was not prepared for the Bernie Sanders delegates who were educated and knew about Hillary corruption and knew about the WikiLeaks. They knew about Seth Rich and knew about the E-Mails that were leaked the day before the Convention that implicated Hillary Clinton in staging the Primary and sabotaging the Bernie Sanders campaign.

This “walk-out” was a direct result of the sleight-of-hand attempt to force a paper vote as a replacement for the floor roll call vote. On Tuesday, after Oregon’s and Washington’s delegates remained in absentia, within 45 minutes those seats and all of the rest of the third level of the convention quickly filled in with “paid” fillers. We had observed advertisements in downtown Philly from the DNC asking for people to serve as seat fillers — for pay. They were expected to hold and wave signs, chant for Hillary, and follow the lead of the Hillary delegates.

The Superdelegates would outweigh the will of the people and states like Michigan, West Virginia, Indiana and Montana would go to Hillary Clinton despite the fact that Bernie Sanders had won them. It’s easy to see how Bernie Sanders was cheated at the convention. It was all planned all orchestrated by the DNC. Debbie Wasserman Shultz would quit before the Democratic Nation Convention as WikiLeaks exposed her corrupt plans and assistance in rigging the Primary Election. She made it known through her E-Mails that she was on Hillary’s side, playing hardball against Bernie Sanders.

(Bernie Delegate Portia Boulger inspiring fiery passion will leave you angry and upset the way the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC treated the voters while undermining democracy at the convention.)

Donna Brazile through out the campaign would help Hillary Clinton cheat by giving her the Debate Questions and CNN and Liberal Media would lie when Bernie Sanders would win a Debate and claim Hillary Clinton won that debate, despite internet polling. Hillary Clinton would go on to lose to the worst candidate imaginable, making Hillary Clinton the worst candidate imaginable. Bernie delegates spent $2000–4000 or more each to be at that convention, money most did not have. Many donated money for that, many Bernie supporters donated money for them to attend and subsequently be corralled, bullied out of their seats, blocked from getting back into the convention floor, harassed and physically intimidated by Hillary Supporters, drowned out by loud noise filtered in, to name a few. Perhaps she could reimburse all the Bernie delegates for their trip to a rigged convention and also pay for the therapy for the PTSD she helped them acquire, however Hillary has no intention of being kind to anyone who isn’t paying her money.

(Roll call results)

This is an open article and will have more added to it based on the eye-witness and the updates on this. Until then, vote for your best interest, it’s all we have left to combat the political tyrants that bend to the will of the money and not the people they were meant to serve. Tom Perez, Elizabeth Warren, Keith Ellison, Bernie Sanders and Donna Brazile would all come forward through out 2017 and openly admit that the Primary was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton.

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