{"id":67094,"date":"2017-02-27T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67094"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:12:33","slug":"67094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67094","title":{"rendered":"Did the Democrats just rig the DNC Chair election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>President Trump Calls DNC Chair Race \u2018Totally Rigged\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nby <span class=\"vcard author\">Sean Adl-Tabatabai<br \/>\nYour News Wire.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/rigged-DNC-race-700x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67095\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/rigged-DNC-race-700x350.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/rigged-DNC-race-700x350.jpg 700w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/rigged-DNC-race-700x350-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump blasted the DNC Chair race as \u201ctotally rigged\u201d on Sunday, claiming that Hillary Clinton and her goons still run the Democrat party.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a scathing tweet, Trump claimed that the newly elected DNC chair, Tom Perez, was chosen by Hillary Clinton because of his anti-Bernie Sanders agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders backed failed chair hopeful Keith Ellison, who also had strong support from big names in the party such as Chuck Schumer and New York Myor Bill De Blasio.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, however, Clinton\u2019s favourite ,Tom Perez, was declared the winner against all the odds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally &quot;rigged.&quot; Bernie&#39;s guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/835814988686233601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-dnc-chairmans-race-%E2%80%98rigged%E2%80%99\/ar-AAnpXuZ\" target=\"_blank\">MSN.com<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p>Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez on Saturday defeated Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) to become the next DNC chairman in a win for centrist Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The race split along establishment-grassroots lines and in many ways mirrored the divisive 2016 presidential primary between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders and many of his allies backed Ellison, the first-ever Muslim elected to Congress and a star on the left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!\u201d Trump tweeted on Sunday, sparking a response from the new DNC chairman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/835610917568200705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/president-trump-dnc-chair-race-rigged\/\">http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/president-trump-dnc-chair-race-rigged\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump Calls DNC Chair Race \u2018Totally Rigged\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}