美国国家公共电台 NPR Clinton Campaign Had Additional Signed Agreement With DNC In 2015

 

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Now, it's been a rough few days for Democrats¹, too. They are trying to rebuild and win elections, including two gubernatorial races next week. And yet the 2016 Democratic primary is a wound that just can't seem to heal. Donna Brazile, who served last year as interim² chair of the Democratic National Committee, dropped a bombshell this week. She says the DNC was effectively under control of the Clinton campaign, and lots of Democrats are angry about what this might have meant to last year's primary. Here's a taste of that. This is CNN's Jake Tapper questioning Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.

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JAKE TAPPER: Very quickly, Senator, do you agree with the notion that it was rigged?

ELIZABETH WARREN: Yes.

KELLY: NPR congressional reporter Scott Detrow is here in the studio. And Scott, what exactly is Donna Brazile claiming happened here?

SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE³: This all comes from an excerpt⁴ from a new book. Remember; Brazile took over the party last summer after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced out as DNC chair. Brazile says shortly after she took over, she found a formal agreement between the DNC and the Clinton campaign.

The long and short of it was that the Clinton campaign would raise a lot of money for both the campaign and the DNC and help pay off the commission's debt. But in exchange, the Clinton campaign would have a say in DNC staffing decisions, communications and party strategy. And what's key is that this document was signed in 2015 before Clinton became the party's nominee⁵, in fact before any primary votes were ever cast.

KELLY: What's the DNC saying? Are they pushing back on this?

DETROW: A little but not quite. It's a word parsing⁶ exercise here. DNC chairman Tom Perez says the DNC had joint⁷ fundraising agreements with the Clinton campaign, with the Sanders campaign as well and that the language was exact in both and that these agreements were not made.

I have tracked down that fundraising agreement between the DNC and the Clinton campaign. It does not in fact include any of these agreements about staffing and policy and big decisions like that. But two senior Democratic officials have now told me that what Brazile is talking about is in fact a totally separate agreement with the Clinton campaign Aside from these joint fundraising agreements.

KELLY: All right, that sounds like something we haven't heard before about this whole situation.

DETROW: Yeah. This is new. And there was a lot of uncertainty⁸ about what exactly Brazile was talking about here. But this is a separate document between the DNC and the Clinton campaign signed on August 26, 2015. What's interesting there, among many other things, is that this was before Vice⁹ President Joe Biden decided¹⁰ whether or not he was going to run for the Democratic nomination¹¹.

KELLY: All right - so lots of details, lots of questions here. But do I hear you right that we now essentially¹² have everybody from Elizabeth Warren to President Trump¹³ saying this is proof the whole thing was rigged? I mean, these are two names you never thought you'd heard agree about anything (laughter).

DETROW: Well, it's not quite that boiled down. It's not quite that simple. I mean, remember; Hillary Clinton did win the Democratic primary. She won it with a wide margin¹⁴ both in raw votes and with pledged delegates. And nobody has ever indicated the voting process was affected¹⁵ in any way. And we've known the general picture here for a long time.

Remember those WikiLeaks emails that came out right at the beginning of the the Democratic Convention. Of course we now know that the - that U.S. intelligence says that was part of a deliberate effort by Russia to meddle¹⁶ in the election. But there were lots of staff emails, lots of clear signs that the DNC did favor Clinton in spirit if not in any sort of scale pushing or anything like that.

KELLY: But what does this mean for the Democratic Party? I mean, is this party ever going to be able to move on from 2016?

DETROW: (Laughter) It often seems like that's not the case. The DNC wants to move on. They need Bernie Sanders' supporters to move forward and win elections like next week's elections. But feelings are still raw. And every time something like this happens, they all come back to the surface. And that mistrust is still there.

KELLY: NPR's Scott Detrow. Scott, thanks very much.

DETROW: Thank you.

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 excerpt   

n.摘录，选录，节录

参考例句：

• This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
• Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗？

5 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

6 parsing   

n.分[剖]析，分解v.从语法上描述或分析（词句等）( parse的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A parsing program, or parser, is also called a recognizer. 分析过程又称作识别程序。 来自辞典例句
• This chapter describes a technique for parsing using the bottom-up method. 本章介绍一种使用自底向上方法的分析技术。 来自辞典例句

7 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

8 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。

9 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

10 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

11 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

12 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

13 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

14 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

15 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

16 meddle   

v.干预，干涉，插手

参考例句：

• I hope he doesn't try to meddle in my affairs.我希望他不来干预我的事情。
• Do not meddle in things that do not concern you.别参与和自己无关的事。