A huge number of people wanted Bernie Sanders to be that alternative, but that won’t happen because not only will he not be the nominee for the Democratic Party, but Sanders will not do anything to divide the party and give Trump a chance to win, such as running as an independent or running with Jill Stein. Delegates from Kansas have already left for Philadelphia.
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Wasserman Schultz’s announcement Sunday follows a firestorm over hacked emails suggesting the Democratic National Committee favored Clinton during the primary, despite pledging neutrality.
There are still some raw emotions among supporters of Bernie Sanders, and those feelings were heightened recently as leaked emails revealed that the Democratic National Committee was less than neutral in the nominating process. However, this convention won’t be the first time Wagnon will be voting as a delegate.
After a sometimes bitter race between eventual victor Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, one of Wisconsin’s leading Democrats, State Senator Jon Erpenbach of Middleton thinks the party will seize on a historic nomination of a woman and have strength going into the fall.
In his convention address, Sanders will also attack the real estate magnate’s programme, especially the portions of it referring to financing his campaign and to the environment, two of the issues the senator focused on during the primaries while mounting a lengthy challenge to Clinton’s frontrunner status. Or should he fight through the convention and “force a roll-call vote for the nomination”, re-opening “a divisive critique of Clinton” and casting the party’s controversial superdelegate system in a negative light?
“To my mind, what is most important now is the defeating of the worst candidate for president that I have seen in my lifetime, Donald Trump, who is not qualified to be president by temperament, not qualified to be president by the ideas that he has brought forth”, Sanders said on ABC.
Sanders is scheduled to speak Monday night.
Officials said volunteers will be handing out water to demonstrators all week.
Other scheduled speakers are Massachusetts Sen. Cory Booker, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Fergie will perform at The Creative Coalition’s gala.
Another Florida delegate, Daniel Carter, also from District 6, said he, too, will vote Sanders, even if unbound.
Wasserman Schutz was elected to Congress in 2004 and was named to the DNC post by Barack Obama in 2011. Branding himself a democratic socialist, Sanders galvanised young and liberal voters with his calls to rein in Wall Street and eradicate income inequality. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.
While numerous Vermont senator’s supporters wanted him to stay in the race for as long as possible, the memo shows the campaign didn’t plan much for a such a process.
And while some are still holding out hope for a miracle this week, a sense of inevitability is growing among some Sanders supporters, prompting many to turn their sights from here to local, state and congressional elections where they plan to continue their waging of his “political revolution” through the election of like-minded candidates.
Philadelphia officials estimate between 35,000 and 50,000 people will demonstrate across the city each day.
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Among the groups planning to demonstrate are gun control advocates, the group Occupy DNC Convention and Trump supporters from Pennsylvania.
