Joe Rogan on bernie sanders: what the evidence says · JRE #2223
SUBJECT: BERNIE SANDERS
The short answer
Rogan claims the 2016 Democratic primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders and handed to Hillary Clinton. Leaked 2016 DNC emails, published by WikiLeaks, showed some DNC staff privately favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primary, a scandal that led DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign on the eve of the Democratic convention.
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
Bernie got screwed. Talk about undermining democracy. Bernie should have won the nomination. Exactly. They stole it from him and gave it to Hillary.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Leaked 2016 DNC emails, published by WikiLeaks, showed some DNC staff privately favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primary, a scandal that led DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign on the eve of the Democratic convention. Fact-checks of the leaked emails found no evidence the DNC or Clinton campaign rigged debate scheduling or other primary mechanics to disadvantage Sanders, and delegate-math analyses showed Clinton would have won the pledged-delegate and popular-vote majority even under alternative superdelegate rules, including with superdelegates removed entirely. Clinton won roughly 3.8 million more primary votes and a clear majority of pledged delegates independent of any staff bias. The claim that the nomination was "stolen" from Sanders is not supported by the evidence; the more accurate characterization is that DNC staff exhibited a documented bias against Sanders without altering the primary's outcome.