Webb Says Debate Was Rigged

Jim Webb (D) claimed in a speech that the first Democratic debate was rigged by CNN to favor Hillary Clinton.

Said Webb: “I’m going to be very frank, it was rigged in terms of who was going to get the time on the floor by the way that Anderson Cooper was selecting people to supposedly respond to something someone else said. It’s very difficult to win a debate when you don’t have the opportunity to speak the same amount of time on issues as the others did.”

He added: “It’s a reality that the debate was being portrayed as a showdown between Mrs. Clinton and Bernie, but if you’re going to be invited to participate and people are going to judge whether you, quote, ‘won’ or not, at least you should be able to have the kind of time that’s necessary to discuss the issues that you care about, that you’ve worked on.”