Clyburn: Having an Open Process at the Democratic Convention Will Lead to Our Loss

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CLYBURN: “So, whatever is going to happen, all these people who are interested in getting into the process, the process is open, get into it. Look at the rules. It's there. And I have said, you could use this process to effectively have a mini-primary, if that's what you are interested in having. But if you go to the convention, have an open process in the convention, it will come out the same way it came out in 1968, 1972, and 1980, when we had contested processes on the floor of the convention. And in 1980, we lost an incumbent president, and in 1972 we carried one state, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, and all of us know what happened in 1968, when we took — we ran Lyndon Johnson out of the race. What a great record Lyndon Johnson had. We got rid of him over one issue, the Vietnam War. Here we are now using one issue to get rid of a president. The result would be the same."