The revelation threatened to shatter the uneasy peace between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders camps and supporters days before the Democratic convention kicks off next week. “You better believe I will be getting my precinct people out to the polls”, Hatsis said.
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He made the remarks Tuesday when asked on a Boston radio program if Clinton was responsible for the Benghazi deaths. The retired professor and psychologist says Clinton is a different candidate than she was eight years ago. That email reads in part, “Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess”.
According to the Daily Caller, the DNC has not admitted the infiltration nor confirmed any of the documents are real. “The convention has a way of putting all these people that spent a year on the opposite side on the same side doing the same thing”, said Smith, of Plantation.
Donald Trump will promise to protect the country from foreign and domestic threats and by putting “America First” in his address Thursday evening formally accepting the GOP nomination for president. After a tough loss, with many disappointed supporters, it’s important to bring Sanders into the fold of the party and ensure that his voters will come out for Clinton in November.
Trump and other Republicans have long argued that cities, frequently run by Democrats, have failed to protect residents and provide them with the kind of job opportunities that will end the cycle of poverty and crime.
Although he couldn’t get Clinton to budge, Sanders’ sizeable support among Democratic voters meant he had the right to appoint some members of the party’s platform committee. Needless to say, I don’t think it was very smart for Democrats to nominate Clinton. Sanders supporters charged that the DNC was biased toward Clinton, and Sanders late in the primary endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wassserman Schultz’s primary opponent in her Florida congressional race.
Of the 317 “district-level” delegates awarded by congressional district, 170 went to Clinton and 147 went to Sanders.
Rounding out the delegation are 53 party leaders and elected officials and 76 unpledged delegates. She’s a better candidate today, having gone through the rigors of a tough primary – a primary debate based on issues, not insults – as she’s been the first to admit.
The presumptive Democratic nominee’s pledge before the nation’s largest gathering of progressive activists shows the steep hill she has to climb to convince Sanders supporters to come on board her campaign despite receiving the endorsement of the Vermont senator.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re going to hold your nose and vote for Hillary”, said Taylor.
A prominent Donald Trump delegate from New Hampshire says Hillary Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason”, over the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
Shifrel, of Coconut Creek, said the contrast between the two conventions would help the Democrats. She said that while Kaine may seem like a “conventional choice”, he will balance the ticket well for the general election.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is preparing for his closely watched moment at the center of the Republican National Convention. “It couldn’t have been easy for him [to endorse Clinton] so if it wasn’t easy for him I want to hang in there and support him through all of this”.
