The Clinton campaign is calling on the Obama campaign to endorse “do-over’’ primary elections in Michigan and Florida, whose Democratic parties have been stripped of their delegates to the summer convention for holding rule-busting January primaries.
Florida has given up on the idea of a do-over, with little enthusiasm for the mail-in primary on June 3 that state party leaders approved and no money from the state to call another full-scale primary election. IAnd the re-do appears doomed in Michigan, where legislative leaders say they cannot act on authorization for a new, June 3 primary unless the Obama campaign supports it.
The Obama campaign has insisted that he played by the rules in bypassing campaigning in Michigan and Florida when the DNC acted to punish them for early votes. The Clinton campaign insists it is game for do-overs.
"Hillary Clinton wants a primary. She has been on record for weeks,'' said Harold Ickes, senior adviser to the Clinton campaign. "So why is there a holdup?... Sen. Obama... End of story.''
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