The Takeaway

Election Rigging: Just a Conspiracy Theory?


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August 10, 2016:

During the presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders supporters suggested that the American political process was "rigged," and now Donald Trump and his backers are contending the same. But is the electoral system really that easy to manipulate? Jeffrey Lord, a contributing editor of The American Spectator; Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and chair of the Democratic National Committee; and Joe Uscinski, a political science professor at University of Miami and co-author of "American Conspiracy Theories," weigh in. Eli Yokley, politics and campaigns reporter for The Morning Consult, discusses yesterday's state and local primary results, and what they might say about the 2016 election.

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