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The political maneuver to shape the rules of the 2028 democratic presidential primary is underway. It should be assumed that it is too early to think around 2028, especially if the Democrats can resume all or part of the congress in 2026.
If the Democrats are back in power at the Congress, Trump will be the most bent of lame ducks, and attention will quickly increase to 2028. If the previous presidential cycles are an indication, the first democratic primary debate will occur by the summer of 2027 and that the first primary competitions will be at the beginning of 2028.
Senator Bernie Sanders and several of his colleagues Democrats in the Senate do not waste time embarking on the rules for 2028.
In a letter to the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer and to the president of DNC, Ken Martin, Sanders, Meaning. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-Or), Peter Welch (D-VT), Tina Smith (D-MN), Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) wrote: Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) wrote: Ed Marke
We cannot allow billionaires and powerful business interests to continue to undermine democracy by injecting unlimited money in the political process.
As you know, the 2010 Supreme Court decision on Citizens United c. Federal Election Commission was a disaster for our country. As Senator Schumer said, “overthrowing the citizens of United is probably more important than anything else than we could do to preserve this great and great democracy”. The president of the National Democratic Committee, Martin, also condemned the influence of dark money in democratic primaries, affirming that he “will bring a resolution on this subject and I will do hard so that our party can find solutions on this subject so that we really have our candidates and our campaigns realize that we must live our values”.
We support the legislation to in -depth reform the financing of the campaigns in order to remove the corrosive influence of money in our elections, in particular by reversing the decision of the united citizens.
But we don’t have to wait until then. There are measures that we can take now to obtain billionaire super pacs and dark money from democratic primaries. In the recent electoral cycles, right -wing billionaires spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding the Super CAP to dominate our primaries.
In addition to intervening in democratic primaries, it is not uncommon for these same super pacs and groups of dark funds to finance general electoral campaigns where they have overtime to overcome the Democrats. The result: they beat a number of excellent members in the House and the Senate. It is unacceptable.
Obtaining Super PAC money and dark democratic primaries is not a pie in the Sky Dream. The Arizona Democratic Party has recently taken measures to ban Super PAC money from primaries by adopting a resolution which undertakes to “ensure, as far as possible, that candidates in democratic primaries do not benefit, dependent or elected due to external or independent electoral expenses” and the launch of a process to develop procedures for implementing the implementation to implement this commitment.
We urge our National Democratic Party to do the same. Before our party could claim to be in favor of the reform of the financing of the campaigns, we must take measures to prevent the super CAP funded by the billionaire from controlling the democratic primaries. The American people are disgusted with a corrupt political system that allows Elon Musk to spend 270 million dollars to elect Donald Trump. They want change. We can make changes.
If our opposition to Citizens United will be taken seriously, we must start by cleaning our own house. Super PAC money and dark money should be prohibited from democratic primaries. We congratulate the Democratic Party of Arizona for having done exactly this in their recent convention. The National Democratic Party must follow.
The Democrats of the Senate who signed the letter are among the most progressive and the most avant-garde members of this body.
Senators are also right.
The Democratic Party could easily prohibit the super CAPs of their primaries. In fact, it is enough to turn to the primary of the Republicans in 2024 to see what can happen when the Super CAP increases their influence in a party. Trump did not have much official campaign operation, but almost everything in terms of money went through a series of Super Pacs. Ron Desantis’ campaign was even worse. A great CAP mainly directed the Desantis campaign.
Democrats cannot be taken seriously during the reform of campaign financing until they intensify and clean their own process.
The reality is that even if the Democrats had control of the entire federal government and have transmitted a ban on united citizens, it would probably be canceled by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has spent almost 50 years avoiding the legislation on the finance of the campaign, and with the current majority of conservative Scot more extreme than the previous ones, it is unlikely that all that the Democrats can adopt survive the Supreme Court.
The importance of a federal reform of the financing of the campaigns prohibiting courts is the reason why it is essential for Democrats to prohibit at least one super CAP of money in the presidential primary.
Democrats cannot control what the Supreme Court could do, but they can and should control their own process of presidential appointment.
What do you think of the Senators’ letter to the DNC? Let’s talk about it in the comments below.
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