President Barack Obama on Sunday called Debbie Wasserman Schultz “our dear friend” following her announcement that she will step down as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee after the party’s convention next week.
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A cache of leaked emails from Democratic Party leaders’ accounts includes at least two messages suggesting an insider effort to cripple the upstart Mr Sanders’ campaign that had competed with Mrs Clinton – including by seeking to present him as an atheist to undermine him in highly religious states.
Sanders issued a statement calling for a new direction for the party that would welcome the working class and young voters – and remain neutral in future Democratic primary contests.
Schwank is one of 26 delegates representing local congressional districts who started arriving in Philadelphia on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention, an event that will mark the first time a woman has led the presidential ticket with the presumptive nomination of Hillary Clinton. The Dems Convention is cracking up and Bernie is exhausted, no energy left!
The four-day convention kicks off Monday in Philadelphia.
No doubt that people like Trevor Noah, who earlier this year confronted Wasserman Schultz on how powerful superdelegates were in helping Clinton maintain her edge, would agree.
More than 5,000 delegates are among the 50,000 people set to attend the gathering at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia, which is expected to culminate with Clinton being named the party’s official nominee for president.
That collusion included the leak of a Sanders campaign document to the Wall Street Journal as well as active attempts to harm Sanders’ image with Southern Baptist Democrats by drawing attention to his atheism.
Several Democratic sources told CNN that the leaked emails are a big source of contention and may inflame tensions between the Clinton and Sanders camps.
But Sanders repeatedly voiced frustration with a DNC and party establishment that he felt was stacked against him, and the resentment from Sanders and his supporters threatened to disrupt the convention.
“He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage”, Marshall wrote in a May 5 email to three top DNC officials. “This afternoon, I called her to let her know that I am grateful”. What difference does it make?
Bernie Sanders’ supporters are rallying near City Hall ahead of their march to a park near the convention site.
After a hard-fought primary campaign, the party had been heading to the Democratic National Convention seeming far more unified than the Republicans, whose fissures were laid bare last week as they confirmed brash billionaire Trump as their flag-bearer.
Murray, the pollster, said the e-mails reinforce the long-running belief of some critics that Clinton and her supporters will do nearly anything to win. Tim is a very, very smart guy.
“He is more conservative than I am”. Would I have preferred to see somebody like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton?
“I would have been highly offended if someone said something like that about me”.
Sweltering heat hasn’t kept protesters away from the streets Sunday.
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“The emails just proved what we believed to begin with”, Dora Bouboulis of Vermont told AFP as she marched in a Philadelphia demonstration.
