I like how that option is more preferred than civ ' s unofficial motto to stand the test of time <| sep |> I firmly believe that Hillary has had her nomination rigged since 2008 . She loses the primary in ' 08 and wants to secure her victory in the next primary . So she bides her time and gets her way into a cabinet position to bolster her public image while working on making sure the system can be rigged in her favor . She needs someone in the party chairmanship to fight for her and help her rig primaries and keep it on the downlow . To do so , she needs to get the current party chair to step down and nominate someone favorable toward her in his stead . Tim Kaine stepped down in 2011 and recommended Debbie Wassermann Schultz replace him . Schultz was always proHillary back in 2008 and in 2016 and I believe that Tim Kaine was promised the nod for VP . This would also explain why a largely irrelevant Senator who no one outside of Virginia has heard of was nominated as opposed to someone rising in the party like Julian Castro , for instance . Hillary has had this rigged for a while , she just didn ' t account for the Trump factor .