The latest leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee ought, if nothing else, to put paid to the idea that Donald Trump has been playing to base instincts more than Secretary of State Clinton.
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Ahead of the convention that kicks off Monday in Philadelphia, he’s remaining optimistic that the Democrat convention will go smoothly. Indeed, the designated themes for three of the four nights include the word “together”.
“The Democratic Party has done this forever”, Arnesen told the Herald.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, said he was “disappointed” with the information revealed by the DNC email dump.
That’s the advice of Burton Warrington, 34-year-old Mayetta attorney and a member of the Kansas delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Bernie Sanders attend a rally in Portsmouth, N.H., this month where Sanders endorsed Clinton for president. He is an enthusiastic Clinton backer and expressed confidence his fellow Democrats will come around.
‘The Wikileaks e-mail release today was so bad to Sanders that it will make it impossible for him to support her, unless he is a fraud!’ Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon.
Wachs is attending the Democratic convention as a member of the credentials committee.
Sanders backed his one-time rival earlier this month after working out a series of progressive changes to the party’s platform.
Her quest received a boost Saturday, July 23, when she introduced Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, a savvy Spanish-speaking USA senator with a bright smile but “a backbone of steel”, according to Clinton.
“The Republicans have a huge percentage of their key people that said they wouldn’t even vote for Trump”, Feingold said. “We don’t have any problems like that”.
Geoff Peterson, chairman of the political science department at UW-Eau Claire, also downplayed the possibility of irreconcilable differences between Sanders and Clinton supporters plaguing the Democrats.
‘It’s not a DNC conspiracy, it’s because they never had their act together’.
“I think that the most important thing is that she is qualified for the position”, Reed said. “The vast majority eventually fall in line”. So, Costilla said, it should be taken out of the party platform.
Much like how GOP Gov. Scott Walker said nothing unifies Republicans more than opposing Clinton, Democrats said they expect to be extremely motivated to prevent Trump, who they consider volatile and unqualified, from taking up residence in the White House.
“If you look at polling data, it’s clear that Sanders’ people are coming around to Clinton faster in fact than Clinton people came around to Obama in 2008”, Shrum said. “Talk about somebody who will be ready to do the job from day one”. “There is no time for on-the-job training”. I think I read he is an atheist.
Trump also name-checked Sanders during his primetime speech on the last day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, reaching out to Sanders supporters join the Trump train.
Clinton, by contrast, offers a vision of a more inclusive nation, Werthmann said.
Wasserman Shultz also called Weaver a “damn liar” in May after he criticized the Nevada Democratic Party following protests among Sanders supporters who said Clinton’s backers had subverted party rules.
Dorothy Albrecht, an alternate delegate for Sanders, said she suspects the party had dubbed Clinton “the establishment nominee” eight years ago.
“The party picks who they want. So we’ll have to leave it alone”.
“We’ve come to see that she’s part of a corrupt system”.
Weaver said the emails showed that the DNC’s “senior staffers” attacked Sanders about his religion and had roles in “planting negative stories about him with religious leaders in various states”.
In mid-May emails with Miranda, his deputy, Mark Paustenbach, questioned whether the DNC should use the voter record furor to raise doubts about the Sanders campaign.
“I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders”.
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“I’m hopeful that Secretary Clinton will make this a major part of her campaign and her administration because the young people of this country can smell a rat here”, Feingold said.
