Tad Devine
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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And in fact, what had happened was this firewall was supposed to be
controlled by the van, they call it, the company that administers this, that, you know, was, you know, and the DNC was in charge of that.
But two months later, when Bernie's zeroing in, they decide to seize on this, to take away our access to the voter files, and they were effectively shutting down our campaign in the middle of December as we were on the move, you know.
So those instances, the debate schedule, the other stuff, the fundraising agreements, there's a litany of things that went on that basically allowed the Clinton campaign to take over the apparatus of the party and control it in a way they never should have.
I think it was because the deck was so stacked in 2016 that there's no way we could have gotten around it.
I mean, if the rule that is in place right now for superdelegates, for example, had not been in place, the entire message of Hillary's campaign, I know she talked about issues, but effectively her message was, you know, I'm going to win.
Inevitability.
It's the message that they delivered constantly all the time.
And that message would have been much harder for them to deliver.
And by the way, it wasn't just the Clintons.
In Nevada, where we were, by the Clinton campaign, put out a poll a month before saying she was 25 points ahead in Nevada.
Why did they do that?
Well, because inevitability was their message.
And as we moved in against her in Alavada and the horse race closed, in the days before, Harry Reid, who I liked very much, he was a good guy, he's not with us anymore, you know, basically, and said he was neutral, but he moved in and he moved that thing as hard as he could towards her at the end.
And don't take my word for it.
John Ralston wrote a piece in USA Today the weekend after the Nevada caucuses where he spelled out in detail how Harry Reid moved to Alavada
steal the caucus for Hillary because he understood, Reid understood, that the inevitability message would have been sunk if she lost Iowa, if he lost New Hampshire, and then Nevada.
And that could have affected what happened later.
I think because there was a consensus among much of the press that her nomination was fait accompli.
She was the strongest non-incumbent candidate for the nomination, I think maybe ever.
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