President
Donald Trump has accused his main challenger at the November presidential
election, Hillary Clinton, of rigging.
He said
Clinton rigged Saturday’s chairmanship election of the Democratic National
Committee (DNC).
Democrats on
Saturday elected Clinton’s long-time ally, Mr Tom Perez, as Chairman of DNC.
The election
was seen as a proxy battle between Clinton and her arch challenger for the
party’s presidential nomination in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Trump said
on Sunday in his tweets that Clinton rigged out Sen. Bernie Sanders’ candidate,
Keith Ellison.
“The race
for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally rigged.
“Bernie’s
guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!” Trump
tweeted.
Trump had,
in his congratulatory message to Perez on Saturday, said he “could not be
happier for the Republican Party”.
“Congratulations
to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC.
“I could not
be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!” Trump tweeted.
The election
saw Perez receiving 235 votes in the second round of voting, ahead of Sanders’
preferred candidate, Keith Ellison’s 200.
In his
victory speech, however, Perez announced that he was appointing Ellison the
Deputy Chair of the DNC, a move that largely calmed frayed nerves among
Ellison’s group.
The move,
which was accepted by Ellison, was unanimously supported.
The election
for the new DNC chairman was held following the resignation of former DNC
Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who left the post following the 2016 DNC
email leak by WikiLeaks.
Emails
leaked by WikiLeaks revealed that Brazile had informed the Clinton campaign of
debate questions ahead of time.
It was
revealed in the email leak that Schultz showed bias against Sanders’
presidential campaign, and was succeeded as DNC chair by Donna Brazile, who
served in an interim role, but ran into controversy as well.
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