The Democratic Party rigged their primary elections in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
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VINCEAug 25, 2026
The claim that Democrats rigged their primaries in 2016, 2020, and 2024 is not supported as an act of rigging.
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… So Democrats are very content with cheating. Democrats have routinely used the power of prosecutors to persecute, to go after Donald Trump and the people around him. They tried to remove him from ballots in Maine and Colorado. They rigged their own primary elections in every presidential election for the last decade: 2016, 2020, 2024. They rigged the primaries against their own voters. Why wouldn't they do it against general election voters? They're ballot harvesting. They're paying off homeless people living on Skid Row for votes for Karen Bass. They're corrupt. …
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Contradicts. A senior adviser to Sanders's 2020 campaign said of the Democratic primary, "It is not currently rigged. Last time it was rigged," pushing back on Trump's claims that the DNC was rigging the 2020 contest.[2]
Contradicts. AFP fact-checked claims that the Democratic Party manipulated the 2024 New Hampshire primary with write-in votes and found election officials confirmed the result and authorities found no evidence of irregularities affecting the contest.[3]
Supports. Donna Brazile wrote that the DNC, working with the Clinton campaign, may have rigged the 2016 primaries against Sanders by controlling party finances, though she called it "not a criminal act" and the DNC emails showed bias favoring Clinton.[4]
Context. The 2024 Democratic contest had no primary in the sense of a contested field: the DNC declined to host debates for challengers to Biden and some voters were told their votes were meaningless, which critics call institutional favoritism rather than rigged vote counts.[5]
Context. Trump's own 2016 and 2020 claims that Democratic primaries were rigged were repeatedly characterized as baseless by fact-checkers, and the general 2020 election fraud claims were rejected by courts and election officials.[1][6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 1, 5 not rated
- 1There's Still No Evidence of Systematic Voter Fraud in the ...snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Sanders campaign rejects Trump claims: Democratic primary is 'not ...thehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts
- 3New Hampshire Democratic primary targeted by false fraud claimsfactcheck.afp.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Rigging Elections, Ignoring Voters, Never Ends Well for Democratsyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5After Decades of Rigged Primaries, Could 2028 Be a True Free-For ...ivn.us · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Trump's failed efforts to overturn the election by the numbersusatoday.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7PolitiFact | 46 minutes of falsehoods: Trump rehashes ...api.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: context
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