Of California’s delegates, Clinton took 254 to Sanders’ 221, 52 to 48 percent. Bernie Sanders, who has championed free public college. In one email, the DNC’s chief financial officer, Brad Marshall, suggested attacking Sanders for his religious beliefs and painting him as an atheist.
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The convention has already been overshadowed by the resignation of party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz over Wikileaks revelations that some in the party’s leadership favoured Mrs Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party”, Sanders said in a statement following her resignation announcement.
He called for new leadership that would “always remain impartial in the presidential nominating process, something which did not occur in the 2016 race”.
“You’re just like oh my gosh we need to do something about this, someone needs to make things right, but at the same time primaries are over, we’re going into conventions”, she said. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.
“We’ve got to elect secretary Clinton”, he told NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
Today’s convention program is expected to open with some of the party’s biggest political stars, and it will highlight some of the party’s most progressive voices.
Her stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, but her removal from the convention stage comes following the release of almost 20,000 emails.
Rep. Ruben Gallego is getting ready for his speech and gave us a preview of the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia.
It provides a stark contrast to last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where street demonstrations were overwhelmingly supported by anti-Republican voters.
Several thousand protesters converged near Philadelphia’s City Hall on Sunday, many of them Sanders backers and people supporting renewable energy and anti-fracking efforts. “No one here has been talking about them”, Mills, a Clinton delegate, said in a telephone interview Sunday night.
Sanders and his supporters have also expressed disappointment at Clinton’s choice of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, preferring someone further to the left. The fact that we are here on the verge of a convention to try to stop Donald Trump and we still have the same person in the chair is just an outrage.
And it may not be the end of it. R.T. Rybak, a former Minneapolis mayor and a DNC vice chairman, called for DNC staff who wrote emails aiming to discredit Sanders or any other candidate to be dismissed.
DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election, it was announced Sunday.
“The Democrats are in a total meltdown”, Trump taunted on Twitter.
His campaign is also hosting a series of convention workshops to discuss how delegates can “move forward the political revolution” and continue to promote his proposals, including a “Medicare for all” government-funded, single-payer health care system and opposition to potential ratification of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. That gathering exposed deep, lingering reservations about Donald Trump from within his own party.
There was a decidedly anti-Hillary sentiment among the activists flocking into Philadelphia, where police were intensifying security operations.
“The DNC chose Hillary”, Darcy said.
Hundreds of the Sanders supporters gathered near City Hall chanted “Feel the Bern!” and “This is what democracy looks like!”
Former president Bill Clinton is the star on Tuesday, while President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden take the stage on Wednesday.
Though planned for months, Sunday’s marches came as fractures appeared in the party that had been trying to display a show of unity in recent weeks.
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Still, Sanders delegate Courtney Rowe, 34, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said “we are not here to disrupt for the goal of disruption”.
