Reid: 'Snobbery of Founding Fathers' to Blame For Presidential Nominating Process

Matthew Balan | March 15, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 14 March 2016 edition of MSNBC's All In, Joy Ann oddly asserted that "what could end up saving the Republican Party" from a Donald Trump nomination is "the snobbery of the Founding Fathers and the early proponents of the system, because the popular vote...doesn't choose the nominee. It's chosen at the state conventions. It's chosen by party insiders." Reid might have been thinking of the Electoral College system, where the voters in each state choose electors, who then vote for a specific nominee for president.

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