Tad Devine

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Next Up with Mark Halperin · The Most Influential Issue Shaking Up Elections · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, I agree with that.

I mean, that's not quite as catchy a title, I guess.

The publisher, you know, who actually came up with that title.

I mean, I

We went through about 50 titles, the people I worked with on the book, my editor, writer, other people.

And they all fell short of the title the publisher himself came up with, you know, which was How the Democrats Screwed Bernie.

And initially when they proffered that to me, I said, I can't do it.

It sounds too much like Trump.

I just can't be associated with him in any way.

But as we went through title after title, most of them long and, you know, just not getting to the point, I said, well, maybe this is the right way to explain it.

Because as I wrote the book, I realized that's what it was about.

And I thought it summed it up well.

Yeah, I agree.

And the thing that concerns me most is as long as we have nominating process for president or even in some of our state process, some running for the Senate, running for the House, something like that, or mayor, as long as we have that in our system, we're not going to get candidates who are the best candidate to win the election.

Okay, that should be the object of what we're trying to do.

We need to win to govern, to get our ideas in front of people, to lead them into law.

So, you know, I want the Democratic Party to understand that and to understand that, yeah, we've made some reforms.

And Bernie, you know, took the lead on this in terms of taking the vote away from the superdelegates on the first ballot.

But, you know, they'll be around for a second ballot if they're there.

And we also, I think, as a party need to step back and say, what is the best way to nominate someone?

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