Despite calls to unify behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, many backers of Bernie Sanders at the Washington State Democratic Convention this weekend were not ready to suspend their political revolution.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders didn’t make it to the Washington Democratic Convention, but a crochet version of him did.
That approach frustrated some Sanders supporters in a state where he trounced Clinton 60% to 38%.
“It’s not simply about a name”. Merkley said on Saturday. In order to address goals like global warming and fighting for the middle class, “we have to come together”.
The poll’s five-day average showed that 45.5 percent of likely American voters supported Clinton, while 34.8 percent supported Trump, and another 19.7 percent did not support either candidate.
“All the Bushes are people of integrity”, said Johnson, who is locked in a close race with former Sen. “Between now and then we don’t know what’s going to happen”.
Sanders thanked his supporters for providing more than $200 million in donations, most in increments of $27, and rattled off what they had accomplished: 1.5 million people who attended his rallies and town meetings and more than 75 million phone calls from volunteers urging their fellow citizens into action.. A high-school student and chair of a Mukilteo high-school Democrat organization, Battle said he’d hoped Sanders supporters would show respect for Clinton. Sixty-seven delegates were previously elected at the party’s May congressional caucuses.
Donna Burdick, a delegate from Everett, crafted the life-sized upper body of Sanders, complete with tie and eyeglasses, shortly after the caucuses earlier this year. In addition, 17 superdelegates, most of whom have already pledged their support to Clinton, will represent the state at the convention.
On Saturday evening, after many hours of debate and objections over rules, delegates voted for a symbolic resolution endorsing Sanders and rejected an endorsement of Clinton.
The pledge fine tuned an earlier vow, made after the attacks past year in Paris and California, to ban the entry of all Muslims into the United States.He also called for measures to make it more hard for suspected terrorists to obtain firearms, veering from the Republican Party’s general opposition to gun control.
“When we go in church and I drink the little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and I eat the little cracker-I guess that’s a form of asking forgiveness”, he said. “We have not outgrown the right and interest in sitting down with people and talking about where we are and where we want to be as a country as a state”.
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In the previous three presidential elections, George W. Bush won 79 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2004; John McCain won 73 percent in 2008; and Mitt Romney – the first Mormon to head a major party ticket – also won 79 percent in 2012.
