Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez cited the death of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to take a swing at President Donald Trump for continuing to hold campaign events amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked during an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18/tom-perez-trump-in-person-campaign-events-397572">interview</a> with Politico on Tuesday about Trump still holding political rallies, Perez pointed to a Tulsa event, which was attended by Cain, who died last month with COVID-19.
Perez said the rally “likely contributed” to a rise in new coronavirus cases, then added, “Was that a good model for how people should conduct themselves? Ask the family of Herman Cain.”
Cain, the former CEO of Godfather&#8217;s Pizza who jumped into politics and ran for president three times, died after battling COVID-19 for nearly a month. He was 74.
Cain’s death was announced on his website, hermancain.com, by Dan Calabrese, who edits the site.
Calabrese said in a statement after Perez&#8217;s comments that Cain had “traveled extensively in the weeks prior to his infection, and could have been exposed on flights, in various hotels or any number of other places.”
“For Tom Perez to make the statement he made is a ghoulish attempt to exploit a man’s death for political advantage while pretending unconvincingly to care,” Calabrese said. “And the last thing Herman’s family needs is to be bothered with gratuitous nonsense like this while still grieving.”
The longtime aide praised Cain on the day of his death. “Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away,” Calabrese said in a blog post. “We all prayed so hard every day. We knew the time would come when the Lord would call him home, but we really liked having him here with us, and we held out hope he’d have a full recovery.”
&#8220;We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight. He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We all prayed that the initial meds they gave him would get his breathing back to normal, but it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle,&#8221; the statement said.
The Republican had previously survived stage 4 colon cancer. An update to his Twitter account said Cain &#8220;is still in the hospital being treated with oxygen for his lungs. In the meantime, the doctors say his other organs and systems are strong.&#8221;
&#8220;Re-strengthening the lungs is a long and slow process, and the doctors want to be thorough about it,&#8221; another tweet said. &#8220;He really is getting better, which means it is working.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to the news of Cain&#8217;s death on Twitter. &#8220;Herman Cain embodied the American Dream and represented the very best of the American spirit. Our hearts grieve for his loved ones, and they will remain in our prayers at this time. We will never forget his legacy of grace, patriotism, and faith,&#8221; she wrote.
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Herman Cain embodied the American Dream and represented the very best of the American spirit.
Our hearts grieve for his loved ones, and they will remain in our prayers at this time. We will never forget his legacy of grace, patriotism, and faith.
&mdash; Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1288850145329676289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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DNC Chairman Mocks The Late Herman Cain When Asked About Safety Of In-Person Rallies

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Iowa and Nevada &#8212; the two first-in-the-nation caucuses &#8212; may find themselves significantly less influential in the next round of Democratic primaries if Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez has his way.
In an interview ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which is taking place virtually this week, Perez told media that he&#8217;s encouraging the committee to put an end to caucuses altogether, replacing them with primaries that are more easily managed and produce results faster.
“I think by 2024 we ought to have everyone being a primary state,” Perez said.
&#8220;The chairman didn’t specifically name Iowa, which for decades has led off the nominating calendar, but his position could represent a seismic shift in the party’s traditions, and it underscores the pressure on the caucus structure that has intensified since Iowa’s count dragged out for days to open the 2020 nominating fight eventually won by Joe Biden,&#8221; The<a href="https://apnews.com/e888a8c7620d5ed51110f9b8838f52b1"> Associated Press reported</a>.
Perez has been something of a reformer, taking the reins of the DNC from Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) who resigned her post after she was accused of rigging the 2016 nomination process in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Since taking office, Perez has responded, at least marginally, to the more progressive wing of the party, undercutting the influence of so-called &#8220;super-delegates&#8221; and managing a larger field of potential nominees.
Unfortunately for Iowa and Nevada, the two states whose early caucuses often give early momentum to upstart candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the caucuses were especially problematic in 2020, with Iowa taking days to report an official winner, and then reporting a strange, disparate result that gave delegates to Sanders but the popular vote to former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who&#8217;d made an Iowa ground game a hallmark of his early campaign efforts.
In Nevada, Sanders roiled the Democratic field yet again, dashing the more moderate Democratic establishment&#8217;s hopes of an easy primary win for former Vice President Joe Biden, who should have done well among Nevada&#8217;s blue-collar union workers.
Perez framed the issue as one of accessibility, suggesting that caucuses are much harder to attend and participate in, marginalizing those who might work long hours or at night.
“I want everyone to participate, and having a state-run primary is the best way to accomplish that,” Perez said.
Democrats will vote on Perez&#8217;s idea of replacing all caucuses with a primary this week, and some have already cast their ballots, given that the convention is virtual. The measure, of course, does not outlaw the caucuses altogether, but it does require &#8220;any state keeping its caucus to create a paper trail for the voting process.&#8221; Iowa, at least, has agreed to those terms.
The measure is expected to pass, as is a measure pushing &#8220;superdelegate&#8221; influence to the second round of voting, keeping Democratic bigwigs who aren&#8217;t bound by state primaries out of the initial nominee selection process.

DNC Chief Tom Perez Suggests Remaining Caucuses Be Replaced By Primaries

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says the Democratic National Convention will still take place next month in Milwaukee, but the event will be scaled down because of fears over COVID-19.
“We are putting nobody in harm&#8217;s way,” Perez said Friday on <a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/0469a9b1-fd7d-4257-ab28-f76acc8fa2aa/35fff9dc-3584-444d-9f2d-2e4b34f732c7">SiriusXM</a>. “Safety is job one for us in this convention and that’s why it will be considerably smaller, but it will be no less exciting &#8212; not less inspiring because frankly, this is still the most important election of our lifetime.”
“We are anchored in Milwaukee and we will have exciting programming in Milwaukee. The vice president will accept the nomination from Milwaukee,” Perez said, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/24/tom-perez-virtual-dnc-381207">Politico</a>. Perez also said that the convention will be nearly entirely virtual and &#8220;have a lot less people at it” than previous years.
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<blockquote>Earlier this summer, the party instructed delegates not to come to Milwaukee, after first delaying it from July to August, and is allowing delegates to vote for the presumptive nominee Joe Biden remotely from satellite “mini conventions.” Still, as cases of coronavirus continue to rise around the country, some Democrats have expressed pause about even holding the smaller gatherings.</blockquote>
In his interview, Perez took a swipe at President Trump, saying: “We will honor the values of the Democratic Party. We will highlight the values of Joe Biden, and one of the values of Joe Biden is humility. Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t need the ego gratification of being surrounded by 20,000 people, and that is why we’re doing it in a safe way.”
The Democratic convention will now be held Aug. 17-20, while the Republican convention will be Aug. 24-27. But the GOP has also altered its plans.
First, the Republican National Convention was set for Charlotte, NC, but the state&#8217;s Democratic governor said the quadrennial gathering might not happen because of COVID-19. So Trump bailed on that state and announced the RNC would be held in Jacksonville, FL.
But last week, the president scrapped that plan as well, deciding against hosting the convention in-person as planned.
“I looked at my team and I said, ‘The timing for this event is not right.’ It’s just not right with what’s happened recently, the flair-up in Florida, to have a big convention, it’s not the right time,” Trump said. “For me, I have to protect the American people. That’s what I’ve always done, that’s what I always will do.”
Trump did say that some festivities in Jacksonville will still occur, and the official activities that go on at the convention will still happen for select delegates – and Trump still plans to make a splash.
“I’ll still do a convention speech, in a different form, but we won’t do a big crowded convention per se. It’s just not the right time for that,” Trump said. “I care deeply about the people of Florida, and everywhere else, frankly, in this country, and even in the world, who would be coming into this state, and I don’t want to do anything to upset it.”
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Biden, Democrats Will Hold Scaled-Back Convention, DNC Says

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Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez gave the final word on the body&#8217;s assessment of sexual assault allegations leveled against their presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden: it&#8217;s all a conspiracy and there&#8217;s &#8220;nothing there.&#8221;
Biden appeared on MSNBC on Friday to deny claims that he sexually assaulted a former aide named Tara Reade back in the early-1990s, but he refused, in the same interview, to release documents from his time as Senator, currently under seal at the University of Delaware. Contained in that cache, reportedly, is a human resources complaint from Reade, suggesting that she had been treated unfairly by Biden&#8217;s staff.
Biden, instead, said investigators contact the National Archives.
“There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be: the National Archives,” Biden he said. “If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
The National Archives said, over the weekend, that it doesn&#8217;t keep those kinds of records and suggested investigators contact the Senate.
Critics &#8212; not just Republicans &#8212; fired back at Biden, demanding that Biden unseal his records, but DNC chair Perez says there&#8217;s no need because Biden was &#8220;fully vetted&#8221; in 2008, when he was being considered for the presidential ticket, even though it&#8217;s not clear the Barack Obama presidential campaign viewed Biden&#8217;s Senate records.
“There’s been so many investigations of the vice-president. The most comprehensive investigation of the vice-president was when he was vetted by Barack Obama in 2008. I’m very familiar with the vice-presidential vetting process. They look at everything about you,” Perez told ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
“They looked at the entire history of Joe Biden, his entire career. And I’ll tell you, if Barack Obama had any indication that there was an issue, Barack Obama would not have had him as his vice-president,” Perez said, adding that Obama&#8217;s team was trustworthy and thorough. “Barack Obama trusted Joe Biden. I trust Joe Biden. And those investigations have been done.”
Perez then compared the investigations into Biden&#8217;s history with women to the Republican search for Hillary&#8217;s 30,000 missing emails, which he claims was a political stunt.
“This is like the Hillary emails, because there was nothing there,” Perez said.
Clinton&#8217;s use of a private server, located in the bathroom of her Chappaqua, New York, home, to handle classified emails while she was Secretary of State during the Obama presidency was, in fact, a legitimate issue. Clinton claims to have used the server out of convenience, as she found handling more than a single device with a single email system difficult, but investigators have never definitively established what material passed through those servers, or whether Clinton exposed sensitive information to foreign actors.
Biden&#8217;s issue is different, not simply because it&#8217;s a sexual assault claim as opposed to a potential violation of federal law, but because Democrats like Biden largely established the standard by which such claims are judged when they challenged then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over a single, unsubstantiated sexual assault allegation from decades before.
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DNC Chair Compares Biden Allegations To Clinton Emails: ‘There Was Nothing There’

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Now that evidence continues to come forward in support of Tara Reade&#8217;s allegation of sexual assault against former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrats&#8217; former statements are now coming back to haunt them.
In 2017, as the #MeToo movement kicked into high gear, Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez said that politicians credibly accused of misconduct need to step aside. He said this as then-Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, leading to his resignation.
&#8220;Sexual misconduct, harassment, and assault have no place in the Democratic Party, the United States Congress, the White House, or anywhere,&#8221; <a href="https://democrats.org/news/dnc-chair-on-recent-sexual-harassment-allegations/">said Perez</a>. &#8220;That’s why earlier today I called on Senator Franken to resign.&#8221;
&#8220;For far too long, our society has looked the other way and allowed men to continue this behavior in virtually every industry,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We must do better. We must step up and fix this immediately. Regardless of party, we must live up to our values by holding ourselves accountable and leading by example.&#8221;
Perez even added that Democrats will now confront the misconduct brewing within their party ranks while denouncing Republicans for their inaction.
&#8220;There are big differences between Democrats and Republicans and this is just one of them,&#8221; said Perez. &#8220;Instead of standing up for women and confronting the problems of misconduct within their own ranks, the Republican Party has chosen to pursue power and push their radical far-right agenda at any cost. And they’ve continued to champion a president who has a long and disturbing history of misconduct with women.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democratic Party will stand up for women and for what is right. Public service is a public trust,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;If you are a candidate for office or an elected official who has engaged in sexual misconduct, you should step aside – whether you sit in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, or the Oval Office.&#8221;
As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/perez-haunted-by-calls-for-candidates-who-engaged-in-sexual-misconduct-to-step-aside-amid-biden-claims">Fox News</a>, Perez and the DNC have remained silent regarding the allegation against Joe Biden as he picks up several prominent endorsements, including from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and enters &#8220;a joint fundraising agreement with the DNC that will allow &#8220;donors to contribute up to $360,600 to the party’s fall campaign, a total far exceeding the $5,600 maximum that donors can give directly to Biden’s campaign.&#8221;
Last month, Tara Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. Though Reade filed a case against Biden with the Senate human resources office (over possible retaliation, not about the assault), those documents currently remain sealed with Biden’s other papers at the University of Delaware.
A former neighbor of Reade and her brother have publicly stated that Reade told them of the assault in the 1990s. Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign has vehemently denied the allegation.
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FLASHBACK: DNC Chair Tom Perez Said The Party Will ‘Stand Up For Women.’ Does That Include Biden Accuser Tara Reade?

Speaking with Jonathan Swan of <a href="https://www.axios.com/dnc-tom-perez-donald-trump-abortion-religion-bf7f1f64-4242-4c34-b6e1-b7d2d283c4f2.html">Axios,</a> Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez took the step of quoting Scripture to  lecture a Catholic cardinal for criticizing him on his unflinching support for abortion. Swan asked Perez about Cardinal Timothy Dolan criticizing Perez after Perez said in 2017 that every Democrat should view a woman’s right to choose abortion as “non-negotiable.”
Dolan had said, &#8220;It saddens me and weakens the democracy millions of Americans cherish when the party that once embraced Catholics now slams the door on us.”
Perez, cherry-picking from Matthew 25, responded, &#8220;Well, actually the majority of Catholics voted for Democrats in 2016. So apparently the cardinal may not understand that Matthew 25 is a pretty important teaching. And Matthew 25 says, you know, when you are hungry, I fed you. When you were naked, I provided you with clothing. When you were an immigrant, I welcomed you. I think one of the reasons why so many people are moving away from Donald Trump is that he&#8217;s abandoned all of those values.”
Swan notes, &#8220;Fact check: The Catholic vote was closely split between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016.”
Additionally, the complete parable in Matthew 25 ends with Jesus saying, “‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” As John Hirschauer of <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-national-committee-chairman-tom-perez-catholic-vote/">National Review</a> notes, “As for Perez’s concern for the ‘least of these’– I can hardly think of a more vulnerable human being in our society than the unborn child that his party supports killing up until the moment of birth. Something Perez might contemplate if he reads the Last Judgment parable <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A41&amp;version=DRA">through to its end</a>.”
The complete parable reads:
<blockquote>When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”
Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?”
The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink;  I was a stranger and you did not invite me in; I needed clothes and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.”
They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?”
He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.</blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Participate In Presidential Primary Debate In Des Moines, Iowa

DNC Chair Quotes Scripture — To Lecture Catholic Cardinal For Criticizing Him On Abortion

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez called for an immediate recanvassing in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday after days of mounting concerns surrounding the accuracy of the results.
Perez&#8217;s call came after The New York Times reported on Thursday that the results &#8220;were riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws.&#8221;
&#8220;According to a New York Times analysis, more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent, that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules of the Iowa caucuses,&#8221; The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html">reported</a>. &#8220;In some cases, vote tallies do not add up. In others, precincts are shown allotting the wrong number of delegates to certain candidates. And in at least a few cases, the Iowa Democratic Party’s reported results do not match those reported by the precincts.&#8221;
&#8220;Enough is enough,&#8221; Perez said. &#8220;In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.&#8221;
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Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.
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&#8220;The state party, in reforms for 2020, introduced an opportunity for campaigns to request a recanvass and, if necessary, a recounct of the results if they are able to show that new figures could alter the allocation of delegates to the national convention in the summer,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-chair-calls-for-recanvas-in-iowa/2020/02/06/0ec4dc4c-4906-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com">reported</a>. &#8220;The state’s rules do not explain how exactly a recanvass differs from a full recount, though both are more significant than a simple precinct review, which involves checking caucus-level anomalies.&#8221;
CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny added: &#8220;The Iowa Democratic Party did not have advance warning that @TomPerez was calling for a recanvass of the Iowa caucus results, two people familiar with the matter tell @CNN . Perez doesn&#8217;t point out that the DNC has been running the show in Iowa for the last 48 hours.&#8221;
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NEW: The Iowa Democratic Party did not have advance warning that <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomPerez</a> was calling for a recanvass of the Iowa caucus results, two people familiar with the matter tell <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>. Perez doesn&#39;t point out that the DNC has been running the show in Iowa for the last 48 hours.
&mdash; Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1225472426894647296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Before Perez’s announcement, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders were virtually tied at 26 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/dnc-chair-calls-for-recanvass-of-iowa-caucuses-111514">reported</a>. Buttigieg led in percentage of state delegate equivalents by just one-tenth of a percentage point, but Sanders led in the popular vote by more than 2,500 votes. The Associated Press said the race was too close to call.&#8221;
Commentators and top surrogates for socialist Bernie Sanders responded by suggesting that the DNC was trying to stop Sanders from winning the state.
Far-left activist Shaun King wrote: &#8220;Let me see if I understand this. 97% of the votes are counted. Bernie surges and is about to take the lead in delegates. @TomPerez calls for something called a &#8216;recanvass.'&#8221;
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Let me see if I understand this. 
97% of the votes are counted. Bernie surges and is about to take the lead in delegates. <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomPerez</a> calls for something called a &quot;recanvass.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/R9RdiWdgPD">https://t.co/R9RdiWdgPD</a>
&mdash; Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1225471631071567877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Current affairs wrote: &#8220;Tom Perez steps in just as the last unreleased results threatened to put Bernie over the top and calls for the whole count to stop and be scrapped and started all over again.&#8221;
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Tom Perez steps in just as the last unreleased results threatened to put Bernie over the top and calls for the whole count to stop and be scrapped and started all over again. <a href="https://t.co/1i92wVsbzU">https://t.co/1i92wVsbzU</a>
&mdash; Current Affairs (@curaffairs) <a href="https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1225484944346157061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez Calls For Immediate Recanvassing In Iowa Caucuses

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Two laders of the Democratic National Convention&#8217;s host committee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin &#8212; including the committee&#8217;s president &#8212; have been suspended following allegations of a &#8220;toxic work environment&#8221; tainted with widespread &#8220;sexism,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wisn.com/article/leaders-of-milwaukee-dnc-host-committee-suspended/30758554#">local media reported</a> Tuesday.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel claims that host committee president, Liz Gilbert, and her chief of staff, Adam Alonso, were suspended from their duties Monday by the host committee&#8217;s board of directors, who received complaints about the pair who, sources told the paper, were creating a &#8220;toxic work environment&#8221; for staffers.
Several women complained to the board, <a href="https://www.wisn.com/article/leaders-of-milwaukee-dnc-host-committee-suspended/30758554#">WISN added</a>, alleging that Gilbert and Alonso created a &#8220;boys club&#8221; environment that allowed &#8220;sexism&#8221; to flourish and run rampant. In addition, the Journal-Sentinel reported, &#8220;two experienced political hands who have worked with the host committee&#8230;accused the top two officials, Gilbert and Alonso, of giving contracts to their friends in New Jersey, calling meetings and then failing to attend them and being more focused on accumulating power than promoting Milwaukee.&#8221;
The complaints triggered an internal investigation, and the pair will remain on the sidelines until the investigation has concluded. Gilbert &#8220;will not have direct contact with staff&#8221; and Alonso has been placed on &#8220;administrative leave,&#8221; per the Journal-Sentinel.
This is, reportedly, not the first time concerns have been raised about the pair. Last month, Gilbert and Alonso &#8220;came under criticism for continuing to do work for New Jersey Democrats while leading the Host Committee full time.&#8221;
The Democratic National Commitee selected Milwaukee to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention back in March of 2019, electing to go to Wisconsin perhaps as a way of making up for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s lack of attention to the state during the 2016 presidential campaign. Although Clinton blamed her loss on sexism, racism, and other internalized biases, experts cited her decision to ignore battleground states in the &#8220;Rust Belt&#8221; as a major contributing factor in her defeat at the hands of now-President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget folks, 490 days and this place will be hopping,&#8221; DNC Chairman Tom Perez said at the time. &#8220;Four hundred ninety days and we will have a discussion about how to retake our democracy in the city of Milwaukee. That discussion will not only ripple across Lake Michigan, it will ripple across the world.&#8221;
Gilbert was quickly placed in charge of the host committee, which is responsible for raising the $70 million it will cost to hold the multi-day event where Democrats will finally crown their 2020 presidential nominee, and recruting the 15,000 volunteers needed for the convention to run smoothly.
Luckily for the DNC, a separate committee, the Democratic National Convention Committee, is in charge of running the convention itself. That committee released a statement Tuesday morning distancing itself from the host committee and promising to investigate the complaints.
&#8220;The Democratic Party is firm in our belief that every person deserves to feel safe and respected at their place of work, and we will always take seriously claims of bullying and workplace harassment,&#8221; Joe Solmonese, the chief executive of the DNCC said in the statement. The board of directors, he added, &#8220;is moving forward with a plan to restore an office culture that aligns with the values and expectations of our party.&#8221;

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Leaders Of Democratic Convention Host Committee Suspended After Claims Of ‘Toxic Work Environment’

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez praised racial activist Al Sharpton on Tuesday night and later warned that climate change is a threat to the &#8220;universe.&#8221;
Perez&#8217;s high praise for Sharpton, who is currently embroiled in a public feud with President Trump, was delivered while on the debate stage during the first night of the second round of Democrat presidential debates on Tuesday.
Perez thanked Sharpton for his &#8220;leadership&#8221; and for standing up for African-American communities.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">DNC&#8217;s Perez praised anti-Semite Al Sharpton <a href="https://t.co/74bPd1yi61">pic.twitter.com/74bPd1yi61</a>
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1156358487561187333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After President Trump unloaded Saturday on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) over his neglect of the &#8220;disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess&#8221; Baltimore, which is in Cummings&#8217; district, Sharpton announced that he would be traveling to the crime-ridden city in a show of solidarity with Cummings and the community.
In response, Trump slammed Sharpton, too.
&#8220;I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him [and] Don King, always got along well. He &#8216;loved Trump!&#8217; He would ask me for favors often,&#8221; Trump tweeted Monday. &#8220;Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites [and] Cops!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him &amp; Don King, always got along well. He “loved Trump!” He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites &amp; Cops! <a href="https://t.co/ZwPZa0FWfN">https://t.co/ZwPZa0FWfN</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155787721576779776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While Sharpton has been largely embraced by the Democratic Party, he has a history of making inflammatory and anti-Semitic comments, including <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/29/condemning-reverend-al-sharpton/">referring</a> to Jews as &#8220;bloodsucking Jews,&#8221; &#8220;Jew b**ards,&#8221; &#8220;white interlopers,&#8221; and &#8220;diamond merchants.&#8221;
At the CNN-hosted debate Tuesday, Perez went on to promote climate change alarmism, warning that climate change was a threat to the entire &#8220;universe.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8220;climate change threatens our universe.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/SHZtpnrSAB">pic.twitter.com/SHZtpnrSAB</a>
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1156355299441295366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50077/one-candidate-snubs-national-anthem-democrat-amanda-prestigiacomo">WATCH: One Candidate Snubs National Anthem At Democrat Primary Debate</a>

WATCH: DNC Head Praises Al Sharpton, Says Climate Change A Threat To Universe

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is in a tough position. He&#8217;s in charge of debate rules to try and whittle down the party&#8217;s massive number of candidates seeking the presidency in 2020, while trying to alleviate concerns about how fair the nomination process is this year compared to 2016.
One of the chief complaints against him is his decision to dilute the power of the superdelegates, who in 2016 overwhelmingly chose Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and comprised 30% of the party&#8217;s total delegate score. Democrats in Congress, who normally count as superdelegates, are upset that their power has been somewhat changed. Now, superdelegates are barred from voting in the first ballot at the Democrat National Convention if their vote would decide who gets the nomination. If no candidate gets a majority of the votes in the first round, superdelegates will then be able to vote in subsequent rounds.
It&#8217;s a small change that might not make any difference, but Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/18/democrats-2020-candidates-tom-perez-1366734">told Politico</a> this amounts to him and his fellow superdelegates being treated like &#8220;second-class citizens in our convention.&#8221;
Second-class citizens &#8212; in other words, treated more like the party base. Talk about an elitist way of thinking.
&#8220;As a result, I don&#8217;t think he has a reservoir of goodwill here among my colleagues in the Congress. And I think he&#8217;s lost a lot of stature,&#8221; Connolly continued. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have a reservoir of goodwill, no one&#8217;s going to back you up when you have disputes. &#8230; That puts him in a very exposed position that is one problem away from being terminal.&#8221;
Politico reported that &#8220;a significant bloc of Democrats&#8221; in Congress feel the same as Connolly.
Back in <a href="https://observer.com/2016/03/the-state-of-the-2016-election-2/">March 2016</a>, Sanders trailed Hillary Clinton by about 300 delegates, 1,132 to 818. A candidate needed 2,383 total delegates (super or otherwise) to secure the nomination. Thanks to superdelegates, who broke strongly for Clinton, the former secretary of state at that time had an additional 467 superdelegates to Sanders&#8217; 26. This meant Clinton&#8217;s total delegates was 1,599 to Sanders&#8217; 844, putting her nearly 800 delegates ahead of Sanders.
By <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/is-it-too-late-for-bernie-sanders-to-convince-superdelegates-to-choose-him">May 2016</a>, Sanders trailed Clinton by 327 pledged delegates and 481 superdelegates.
While Clinton may have won enough delegates to beat Sanders without the help of superdelegates, the lead may have had an effect on depressing Sanders&#8217; chances. This also made it appear as though the Democratic Party selected its nominee, instead of Democratic voters (we later found out that this was largely true thanks to some primary rigging by the DNC). Had Democratic voters had more of a say, Sanders may have been the nominee. Conventional wisdom suggested Sanders had less of a chance of winning the presidency against a conventional Republican candidate &#8212; but Republicans nominated Donald Trump.
Obviously, the conventional Democrat nominee lost to the unconventional Republican nominee. We&#8217;ll never know if an unconventional Democrat nominee (Sanders) could have beat the unconventional Republican nominee.
Even if Sanders wins the nomination this time around, Trump will have been president for four years, meaning he will be viewed differently (based on policies actually implemented) than he was in 2016 (based on promises).

TURMOIL: Congressional Democrats Mad At Party Chair For Diluting Superdelegate Power, Says It Makes Them ‘Second-Class Citizens’

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez told CNN&#8217;s Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday that Republicans should not use any ill-gotten information against the Democrats in the upcoming elections, but, when pressed, did not seem to think that Democrats should be held to the same standard.
&#8220;And what we saw in the 2016 election, a foreign adversary &#8212; and not just any foreign adversary, our &#8212; our most &#8212; our fiercest foreign adversary attempted to interfere with our election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton,&#8221; Perez <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/25/nday.02.html">said</a>. &#8220;And what we said in 2016, and my predecessor asked her counterpart at the RNC back then to do the same thing, don&#8217;t use stolen information. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re saying again.&#8221;
&#8220;It sounds like they&#8217;re saying that,&#8221; Camerota responded. &#8220;I mean when they say it&#8217;s an affront to all of us, any breach of political organizations, and we come together to prevent it, it sounds like they&#8217;re saying that.&#8221;
&#8220;We are at war right now. It is a cyber war. Unfortunately, because our commander in chief is compromised, the federal government is asleep at the switch,&#8221; Perez claimed without evidence. &#8220;And that is why the DNC and others in the Democratic Party ecosystem are working tirelessly to make sure that we are protecting our data, making sure &#8212; we&#8217;re working with every campaign to provide cybersecurity training because we can&#8217;t expect help from the &#8212; from this administration.&#8221;
&#8220;But what if you get something really juicy, say President Trump&#8217;s taxes, then should one of the Democratic candidate be able to air those?&#8221; Camerota asked.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s going to be a product of a subpoena process where we are &#8212;&#8221; Perez responded.
&#8220;Maybe. I mean maybe it&#8217;s going to be leaked,&#8221; Camerota responded. &#8220;What if that&#8217;s leaked to you? Are you saying that the Democrats shouldn&#8217;t use that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, again, I think we are entitled to that,&#8221; Perez said, which contradicted his earlier point about not using ill-gotten information for political gain. &#8220;If you look at the law that Chairman Neal of the House Ways and Means Committee is using, it&#8217;s a very &#8212; it&#8217;s very clear. It&#8217;s not &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t say you&#8217;re entitled to taxes unless it&#8217;s the taxes of the president of the United States. So firmly believe that we will get access to those.&#8221;
&#8220;Right. I just mean &#8212; I just mean the tactics,&#8221; Camerota responded. I just mean that &#8212; you&#8217;re sticking with this, even if you get juicy oppo research of some kind about President Trump through ill-gotten tactics somehow, you are sticking with this position?&#8221;
Perez responded by refusing to answer the follow-up question from Camerota and instead deflected to talking about the 2016 election.
&#8220;Well, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m sticking with. And this isn&#8217;t about Right versus Left. This is about right versus wrong,&#8221; Perez responded. &#8220;A foreign adversary, Russia, they hacked the DNC, they hacked others. They did so with the intent to interfere with our presidential election. And what we said in that letter is, when we have such activity, if someone calls you and tells you, I&#8217;m going to rob a bank, your response should be, I&#8217;m going to call the authorities. When the Russians called Donald Trump and said, I got dirt on Hillary Clinton, they should have called the authorities. Instead, they said, tell us what you got. That&#8217;s not right.&#8221;
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DNC chair Tom Perez demands the GOP doesn&#8217;t use ill-gotten info against Democrats
CNN&#8217;s Alisyn Camerota asks him if Dems will weaponize Trump&#8217;s tax returns if they&#8217;re *leaked*
Perez: &#8220;Well, again, we are entitled to that&#8230;&#8221;
Camerota pressed him again and he dodges answering <a href="https://t.co/zq6yuzHv1g">pic.twitter.com/zq6yuzHv1g</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1121842824054362112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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DNC Chair Tom Perez: GOP Shouldn’t Use Ill-Gotten Info, But We Can

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Uncle Joe wrote to me all day long.
Being signed up to lots of mailing lists &#8212; who in turn sell their lists to other mailing list sites &#8212; I get all kinds of stuff. But Biden, who on Thursday jumped into the 2020 presidential race, outdid them all.
&#8220;J, did you get a chance to read Joe&#8217;s email?&#8221; said my first missive from joebiden.com titled &#8220;checking in.&#8221; No, I didn&#8217;t read it &#8212; because you never sent it to me, Joe! But that didn&#8217;t matter. He went on and on.
&#8220;Since this morning&#8217;s announcement, thousands of people have chosen to become Founding Members of this campaign. It&#8217;s amazing to watch!&#8221; said the email. &#8220;Our core values, our very standing in the world, our democracy, and everything that makes us who we are is at stake. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;J, are you with me? Chip in $5 or anything you can to join our campaign,&#8221; said the email, signed simply &#8220;Joe.&#8221;
A few hours later, &#8220;Biden For President&#8221; wrote me. This time, they took a different tactic in an email titled, &#8220;please j.&#8221;
&#8220;J, the first day of Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign is about to come to an end. We are making a list of all our Day One donors to send to Joe. And J, you&#8217;re running out of time to get your name on the record!&#8221;
Wow, could I really be on that list as a Day One Donor?! That&#8217;d be cool to see my name on the sheet when Biden posts it on the wall of the Oval Office the first day he moves into the White House. Here&#8217;s my chance!
&#8220;What we raise today will determine the number of rallies we can host, the staff we can hire, and the number of voters we can contact. So we really need all of Joe&#8217;s top supporters to chip in,&#8221; the email said. Hmm, that seems a little short-sighted, &#8216;cuz there&#8217;s always, like, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next to raise more money.
By 9 p.m., Uncle Joe was just flat-out begging. Now, he&#8217;d even take a single buck.
&#8220;What we raise on Day One is really important. And if we get 5,550 more donations before midnight we will be able to report a BIG number. So we had to reach out one more time. J, will you make your first contribution before midnight (even if it&#8217;s just $1)?&#8221;
Bernie and Beto joined Biden in begging for bucks.
&#8220;Today, there is one more candidate in the race,&#8221; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wrote in an email titled (weirdly): &#8220;[BUMP] Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;That makes today a big day for our campaign &#8212; and an important moment to show that we are the ones who can beat Trump and transform this country. So we are asking &#8212; especially today: Can you make a $3 contribution to our campaign today?&#8221; said the email.
Former Texas Rep. Robert &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke wrote a similar message, slugged &#8220;Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;Today is an important day to show the strength of our grassroots campaign, especially given the fact that the former vice president has already been collecting checks from major donors for a week leading up to this launch,&#8221; he wrote before asking for $3.
Then the entire Democratic Party wrote to me, also asking for $3 (and claiming that all would be great if 28 people from a town 13 miles away did the same).
&#8220;We simply cannot win next year without building a strong foundation for our eventual nominee and Democrats up and down the ballot &#8212; and we must invest in that foundation now,&#8221; said the email, signed &#8220;Tom Perez, Chair, Democratic National Committee.&#8221;
Needless to say, I sold my house and my car and sent them all the cash. And I better be right at the top of that &#8220;Day One Donor&#8221; list!

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