Democratic operative David Axelrod took to social media Friday evening to denigrate the Democratic National Committee for tipping the balance of the presidential nomination race in Hillary Clinton’s favor.
The former senior strategist for President Obama’s re-election campaign tweeted out that it was a “harsh penalty” for the DNC to revoke access to Democratic Party voter data to Bernie Sanders after it was revealed that his campaign illicitly viewed data from the Clinton campaign. Afterwards, the Sanders filed an injunction in order to get the decision reversed, arguing that the data breach was the fault of the sofrware vendor hired by the DNC.
W/out evidence that his hierarchy knew about data-poaching, harsh penalty v. @BernieSanders looks like @DNC is putting finger on scale.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 18, 2015
Axelrod said that the DNC is “putting [its] finger on the scale” in favor of Clinton, who is the Democratic front-runner by far.
He called the DNC’s judgement to be “disproportional,” and added that the DNC’s reaction actually lets the Sanders team “off the hook for their own stupidity.”
The disproportionate @dnc reaction actually got @BernieSanders crew off the hook for their own stupidity. Not helpful to @HillaryClinton.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 18, 2015
“If I were @HillaryClinton, I’d would have much preferred to see @BernieSanders campaign stew in its own juices,” he concluded.
If I were @HillaryClinton, I’d would have much preferred to see @BernieSanders campaign stew in its own juices.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 18, 2015
Shortly before midnight Friday, the Sanders campaign announced that access was returned to the DNC voter database.
On Saturday, Axelrod offered his “final” thoughts on “Filegate.”
Yep. I agree. I could have worded it better. That’s why I Tweeted what I just did. https://t.co/iJMIIF951H
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 19, 2015
.@DNC has done right by reinstating @berniesanders camp access to its own voter files, tho Berniacs still deserve boos 4 snooping @ HRC’s.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 19, 2015
This isn’t the first time Axelrod has dinged Clinton’s campaign.
In September, Axelrod mocked the Clinton’s new campaign strategy to “show more humor and heart,” according to a report by the New York Times.
“Today’s @nytimes story on HRC read more like The Onion: Her detailed plan to show more authenticity and spontaneity #Justdoit!,” he tweeted.
