Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC - Donna Brazile
I told Bernie I had found Hillary’s Joint Fundraising Agreement. I explained that the cancer was that she had exerted this control of the party long before she became its nominee. Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position, but here we were with only weeks before the election.
The DNC was deep in debt, and the Clinton campaign put the DNC on life support by transferring money from the Campaign to the DNC. The terms of the agreement to fund the DNC essentially gave Clinton control over the DNC.
Lastly, for you collusion-o-philes to chew on:
Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express outrage. Instead he asked me what I thought Hillary’s chances were. The polls were unanimous in her winning but what, he wanted to know, was my own assessment?
I had to be frank with him. I did not trust the polls, I said. I told him I had visited states around the country and I found a lack of enthusiasm for her everywhere. I was concerned about the Obama coalition and about millennials.