Tennessee Democratic Party disavows U.S. Senate nominee

[Jim Lane]

20. Primaries are open to all comers, as they should be.

You write, "The DNC has to pay attention who they let in the dem party primary."

I've never heard of any state where the DNC has the power to exclude someone from a primary ballot. Often you get on the primary ballot by receiving a certain level of support at the state party convention. If you don't qualify that way, many states let you get on the ballot by submitting a certain number of signatures.

Think well before calling for DNC screening of primary candidates! They would exclude the occasional right-wing nutjob infiltrator, but those people had no hope of winning the general election anyway. I'd worry that the DNC would also exclude genuine progressives who wanted to challenge Party establishment favorites.