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Bernie Sanders Loyalists Seize Control of the Nevada Democratic Party
Slate
3/11/2021
Jim Newell
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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his wife, Landra Reid, at the Nevada Democrats’ “First in the West” event in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, 2019. David Becker/Getty Images
The 2016 Nevada Democratic convention ended in chaos. Bernie Sanders state delegates, who’d tried to out-organize Hillary Clinton delegates to eke out a few more spots to the national convention, felt the party establishment had rigged the process against them, just as they felt the party establishment had rigged things during the caucuses a few months earlier. Chairs were thrown, the state party chair received death threats, and the convention had to be wrapped up abruptly because things had gotten so out of control. Democratic Party officials worried about whether this would be a prelude to a messy Democratic National Convention in Philad ....

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