Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s announcement that she would be stepping down had Sanders’ supporters particularly cheering, with backers shouting on the streets of Philadelphia outside the convention site: “Debbie is done!”
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The emails, which were part of a hack into the Democratic National Committee a year ago, appeared to confirm the bias that Sanders, a United States senator from Vermont, had long accused the party leadership of holding.
“I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America’s future”, Wasserman Schultz added.
The main complaint was over the lack of debates. In the wake of the emails’ release, many Sanders supporters called on Wasserman Schultz to resign from her post.
In a statement, Wasserman Schultz said she would “step down as Party Chair at the end of this convention”.
The Democratic National Convention starts Monday in Philadelphia.
Kurt Ehrenberg, who organized Sanders’ primary organization in the Granite State and later served as state political director, told NH1 News Wasserman Schultz’s resignation is “probably a good result for an orderly convention and moving forward as we get into the fall campaign”.
The rally gathered roughly a hundred supporters, many still hoping Sanders has a shot at the White House.
A Dispatch survey of Ohio’s Republican delegates showed more disunity, including that 46 percent are not enthused that Trump is the nominee, 85 percent do not view him as the party’s best possible candidate and less than three-quarters believe he will win in November.
“What’s in those emails show that it was a clearly rigged system, that Bernie Sanders. never had a chance”, Manafort said on ABC. Party officials said she would gavel the gathering to order Monday and close it on Thursday, but would have no major speaking role – unlike Priebus at the GOP convention last week.
Asked if her stepping down will help Sanders supporters back Clinton, Volinsky said “I think it might be a step in that direction”.
The cache of emails, leaked on Friday by the WikiLeaks website, revealed DNC officials explored ways to undermine Mr Sanders’ insurgent presidential campaign, including raising questions about whether Mr Sanders, who is Jewish, was really an atheist.
The hard-fought primary campaign has caused the party and Clinton to take “a more Bernie-centric view of the world”, making it easier for Foley to support the presumptive nominee. DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election, the DNC said on Twitter. The vowed to keep fighting for climate and environmental justice issues, even though their preferred presidential candidate, Sanders, would not be driving the party’s agenda. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. “So I think our effort to unify was helped by that”. A Pew Research Center survey, conducted June 15-26, found that 85% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters who backed Sanders in the primary said they plan to vote for Clinton in the general election.
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“What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that Russians are releasing these emails for the goal of helping Donald Trump”, Clinton campaign chairman Robby Mook said on CNN’s “State of the Union“. This could make several points difference with my peeps.
