By David Nather
There was another signal from the Democratic party establishment today that it’s time to wrap up the nomination. Robert S. Strauss, an uncommitted superdelegate and former Democratic National Committee chairman from the 1970s, declared in a Washington Post op-ed this morning that “the process has been played, and it has been played out.”
“Democrats [...]
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