“Florida and Michigan should not be seating any delegates. They knowingly and deliberately broke the rules. Now they should face the consequences.”
Who is they? The problem with that is that the ones who screwed around and never agreed upon primary dates were the state and national Dem. party organization (and Republican I think(), and the Florida legislature.
But these entities are not the ones who’ve been disenfranchised. It’s the Florida voter who had nothing to do with any of those disputes and failures to agree who are being screwed and disenfranchised. Their votes aren’t really being counted in a presidential primary, though they went to the polls and voted just as voters in the other forty eight states did.
The Florida voters got screwed. And that should not have happened. It’s a pity there aren’t some stiff fines and a little jail time to hand out to the higher ups and legislators who caused that.
The Dem party can pick a guy out of a hat if they want to, they don't even have to have a primary. Now if it was the general election, that would be a different story.
I live in Florida and moving the primary date was well publized. I heard little or no complaints from dems back then. In fact, it passed, with the support of dem legislators.
If anyone is to blame, it is the Florida voters who elected these dummies in the first place.
And, don’t forget, Repub voters were penalized with half of our delegates taken away. You don’t hear us whining and crying.