The U.S. news agency Associated Press’s decision to announce on Monday that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination, ahead of Tuesday’s primaries, has had many criticizing both the outlet and the party establishment itself.
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As The Intercept reported, superdelegates — Democratic Party’s 720 insiders — corporate donors and officials, privately told AP journalists they intend to vote for Clinton. AP concealed the identities of these superdelegates.
The Sanders campaign came out to say AP’s report isn’t entirely accurate, as superdelegates don’t vote till July and that he has intentions to persuade them to vote for him. However, many mainstream media outlets followed suit and declared Clinton the winner.
While there is no denying that despite the superdelegates, Clinton has received more votes, it is also true that the Democratic Party has repeatedly made decisions that benefit her, exposing just how undemocratic the process really is.
The Intercept said it's not surprising that a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests has a nomination process that is anti-democratic and inherently corrupt.
The supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee has constantly made moves to ensure Clinton wins.
As The Intercept published, “this is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization — incredibly — conceals.”