OPINION
Rigging Elections, Ignoring Voters, Never Ends Well for Democrats
By Michael Dorstewitz
Monday, 13 July 2026 09:48 AM EDT
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Despite their endless babble about protecting "our democracy," Democrats only want to exercise it when they believe it works in their favor, and the Graham Platner debacle in Maine is just the latest example.
But this wasn’t the first time. The Biden-Harris disaster is only two years old.
Despite President Joe Biden's horrible first term, distinguished only by failure, he sought reelection to the praise of pundits and party faithful.
"He's better than he has ever been — intellectually, analytically," said "Morning Joe" Scarborough on March 7, 2024, adding, "This version of Biden is the best Biden ever!"
Liberal pundits and legacy media continued that charade until June 27, 2024, when Biden met President Donald Trump in debate and looked like a deer in the headlights.
Thirty-nine days later, Aug. 5, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) crowned Vice President Kamala Harris as its replacement presidential nominee and went down in flames three months later, losing the electoral vote, the popular vote, and control of Congress.
Then there’s that time in 2016 when the Democratic Party put its thumb on the scales.
Barack Obama was in his final full year as president so the party searched for a new nominee. Although then-Vice President Biden was an obvious choice, he removed his name from consideration early on, citing grief over his son Beau's death from cancer.
So the field was open, and the two frontrunners were Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Sanders came close, winning 23 state primaries and caucuses, but it wasn’t enough. Later, several batches of hacked internal DNC emails were released showing a strong bias against Sanders and favoring Clinton.
Former DNC interim chair Donna Brazile admitted that the DNC, working in concert with the Clinton campaign, may have rigged the primaries against Sanders by controlling party finances before winning the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
"This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity," she said of the arrangement.
Brazile released a book on the 2016 election, "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House."
In it she recalled that Sanders had asked her to check for any shenanigans at the DNC directed against him.
Brazile wrote, "By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart."
She later denied any DNC rigging of the primaries, but nonetheless, Sanders supporters filed a class action lawsuit against the DNC and former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, alleging that the committee skewered the primaries against Sanders.
The committee’s response was essentially, "so what?" and the court agreed. It conceded that the DNC had the right to rig primaries, democracy be damned.
Each party controls the manner in which they select their candidates.
Meanwhile, Graham Platner overwhelmingly won the June 9 Maine Democratic U.S. Senate primary, taking in more than 72% of the vote, despite sexual assault claims, a Nazi tattoo, and mocking a Purple Heart recipient, adding the he "didn't deserve to live."
Notwithstanding all the warts, Democrats lauded him just like they did Biden two years earlier. "I said to myself, that’s my kind of man," swooned Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
But when more sexual abuse allegations rolled in, this time from liberals (the initial one came from a conservative), Maine Democrats forced him out, and he officially ended his campaign over the weekend.
In each case the people’s choice was rejected by party leaders, but not because the candidates were unqualified. Party leaders turned their back to the voters because they believed the candidates were unelectable in a general election.
And how’d that work out for them?
Clinton edged out Trump in the 2016 popular vote, 48.2% to 46.1%, but fell far short where it counted — the electoral vote. Clinton only amassed 227 to Trump’s 304.
Four years ago Clinton believed "We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy." Well, yeah, when your party skewers state primaries to elect whomever they want.
Harris fared far worse in 2024. She won 226 electoral votes to Trump's 312, and lost the popular vote as well.
Six months after Democrats crowned her their nominee despite the voters, she reminded Americans "of the role they play in preserving our democracy." What about the role she and her party play?
And whoever Maine Democratic leaders anoint as their Senate nominee to face off against Sen. Susan Collins in November isn't likely to fare any better than the person the voters overwhelmingly nominated.
The Democratic National Committee would do well to do less talking about democracy and spend more time actually practicing it.
And who knows? They may eventually be able to look at themselves the mirror again.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/brazile-clinton-dnc/2026/07/13/id/1262634/
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