Bloomberg.com
By Laura Litvan

Delegates from the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries shouldn’t decide who wins the party’s presidential nomination, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the chair of the Democratic National Convention.

“I don’t think that any states that operated outside the rules of the party can be dispositive of who the nominee is,” Pelosi said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” scheduled to be aired today.

Pelosi’s stand is a setback for Hillary Clinton, who won those states’ uncontested primary elections after the party stripped the states of their delegates. Clinton is pushing to allow the delegates to vote at the Democratic convention in Denver, Colorado, on Aug. 25-28.

Clinton said not seating the delegates could dampen voter turnout in the November election.

“Two States”

“Both Michigan and Florida should count because these are two states we have to carry,” Clinton said Feb. 11.

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