Ralph Nader: Democrats Rigged The Superdelegate System To Fill It With Hillary’s Cronies [VIDEO]

The Hill reports:



Ralph Nader says Hillary Clinton is unfairly winning the Democratic nomination with unelected super-delegates and closed primaries that shut out independent voters who prefer Bernie Sanders. “If he had an open primary he’d have beaten her,” Nader told The Hill in a Facebook Live interview on Monday. “It should be open to all voters. And that helped her; that gave her a big advantage.”

“The Democrats years ago didn’t want an insurgency like Bernie Sanders, so they rigged it,” he added. “They’re called super-delegates, they’re members of Congress, they’re Democratic governors, they’re party hacks. … Hillary’s cronies, mostly.”

Nader, a consumer advocate who ran one of the most successful third party candidacies in recent U.S. history, said he wishes that Sanders would mount a third-party bid against Clinton and Donald Trump to provide “more voices and choices on the ballot.” But Nader said it’s probably too late for an independent Sanders candidacy and that “it’s not in him to do it.”