“Two years ago, it was nearly unimaginable that Hillary Clinton would be campaigning on debt-free college, expanding Social Security, breaking up “too big to fail” banks and all these other progressive issues”, said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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“It definitely helps, but she needs to resign completely, give up her seat”, said Daniel Clark, 25, a Sanders delegate from Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He said, “She got it out of the way before the convention has even started”.
The furore was a blow to a party keen on projecting stability in contrast to the volatility of Republican candidate Donald Trump, who was formally nominated at a raucous convention in Cleveland last week. At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme.
They will try to overcome the lingering resentment among Sanders supporters, which was intensified by both the leak of emails that appeared to show top DNC officials working against the Sanders campaign and include one questioning his faith.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she would step down at the end of the convention, a move that aimed to put an end to the scandal threatening an uneasy truce within the fractured party.
Clinton’s primary rival, Vermont Sen.
Retired Gen. John Allen, who led the war in Afghanistan, will also be among the night’s marquee speakers.
Allen, who most recently served as America’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, said Monday that he generally keeps out of politics but “given the complexities of issues facing our country today and its longtime allies, I felt compelled to speak up and be heard”. Kenny Madden, a Sanders delegate from Kentucky, said he doesn’t “think there can be anything Bernie can say that will bring people together”.
Allen is the former deputy commander of U. S. Central Command and previously oversaw North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan.
Republican Donald Trump has said that in his administration, the US might not come to the defense of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who don’t contribute enough to the alliance. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members promise that an attack against any of them is considered an assault against all.
Elizabeth Warren and First Lady Michelle Obama.
“Bernie Sanders is making it clear that Donald Trump is the single most unqualified person to be president in his lifetime”.
Sanders will notably deliver the night’s closing address.
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort said the Clinton camp was trying to distract from its party discord ahead of the convention. He said he was “a little shocked” at the lack of mention Trump received in the Republican National Convention speech by runner-up Sen.
US Democrats scrambled to contain damaging revelations of an insider effort to hobble Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, with the party boss abruptly announcing her resignation on the eve of the convention to officially nominate Hillary Clinton. The Florida congresswoman heeded Sanders’ longstanding call to leave as party chief.
The resolution, presented to the full committee as a compromise from the Sanders and Clinton campaigns, would establish a commission next year to review the election and the role of super delegates and caucuses.
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Photos: 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland ” If they think they can win without half the party, let them lose”, said Andrew Fader, 27, of NY, who was wearing a “Bernie” T-shirt on Sunday near the Liberty Bell.
