Mr. Sanders – increasingly concerned by the rise of Mr. Trump – is expected to offer Ms. Clinton a full-throated endorsement, but the frayed tempers of his supporters may not be easily soothed.
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On Monday, Robby Mook, campaign manager for Ms Clinton, said that he was not concerned about the jeering or booing of Ms Wasserman Schultz. And there should be a lot more where that came from: According to the New York Times, Philadelphia expects to host 35,000 to 50,000 protesters each day of the convention.
Last month, a Bloomberg Politics national poll found that 40% of Sanders supporters said they wouldn’t vote for Clinton, and 22% would vote for the GOP nominee.
The Clinton campaign has claimed the hack was perpetrated by Russian hackers sympathetic to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and created to paint Democrats in a negative light.
Lisa Flyte, a Sanders representative on the convention credentials committee, griped that the Clinton campaign “is still taking jabs at us”.
“We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive-we know that that’s not the Florida we know”, she cried.
Wasserman Schultz’s decision to step down comes after a release of DNC emails by WikiLeaks, causing a controversy just as the Democratic National Convention begins in Philadelphia. The combination of Secretary Clinton’s choice of an establishment running mate in Senator Tim Kaine and the email scandal uncovering the DNC’s efforts to undermine Senator Sander’s campaign show themselves to be the dysfunctional, dishonest, spin doctors they accused the republican party of being. Delegates shouted “shame, shame”, as she rose to address a breakfast meeting of delegates from her home state of Florida on Monday, ahead of the convention. “The Florida that we know is united”, she said. One is sponsored by AT&T and the other is sponsored by the AFL-CIO, he said.
“It’s very clear people want change, and I’m sure [at the Democratic National Convention] she’ll try to disqualify the kind of change that Trump is offering”, Cole added.
“That’s how angry we are”, one woman wearing a “Thank You Bernie” shirt argued pointedly at a Clinton supporter. Trump tweeted, a day after the DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation.
Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak on Monday, followed by former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday. The two living former Republican presidents and the party’s last two presidential nominees refused to attend the event in order to signal their discomfort with Trump’s candidacy.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had an abysmal weekend, and Monday morning started out no better for her. “I’m telling my fellow Bernie supporters, let’s get this together, we have to defeat something that’s bigger than any divided party we have now”.
