Leaked Documents: Democratic Party Favored Clinton from Start

A leaked document from the U.S. Democratic National Committee is showing how the Democratic Party has favored and worked with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton since she kicked off her campaign last year, confirming claims made by Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

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In one document, dated May 26, 2015, which is just over a month after Clinton announced her presidential bid, the DNC declared that “our goals & strategy” are to “provide a contrast between the GOP field and HRC.” HRC stands for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The document was posted online by hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” who claims to have been responsible for a data breach at the party’s computers, despite claims by DNC officials that Russia was behind the hack.

The document further outlines strategies to attack the Republican presidential bid and its candidates such as the "use (of) specific hits to muddy the waters around ethics, transparency and campaign finance attacks on HRC.”

Such revelations are contradictory to the official and public policy of the DNC and its leaders of staying neutral over the course of the party’s presidential primaries. In a letter to the DNC last month, Sanders accused the party’s leadership of favoring Clinton for the nomination.

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“If we are to have a unified party in the fall, no matter who wins the nomination, we cannot have a Democratic National Convention in which the views of millions of people who participated in the Democratic nominating process are unrepresented in the committee membership appointed by you, the Chair,” Sanders wrote.

Sanders has declined to drop out of the Democratic primary race and intends on bringing his progressive platform to the convention in July. He has also demanded that DNC leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz be replaced and that the party drops the superdelegate system.