“I think these emails reiterate the reason why she should not be chair”, Sanders stated. Bernie Sanders during the primary.
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When asked if the emails show bias by the DNC against Sanders, Hinojosa said, “I read the emails, I didn’t see that”.
The damaging emails exposed the fact that the DNC committee was rooting for Hillary Clinton from the start and did not support Bernie Sanders.
DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election, the DNC said on Twitter.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says Debbie Wasserman-Schultz made the right decision for the Democratic Party’s future by resigning as party chair. The leak comes after Russian hackers gained access into the DNC computer system last month, and the Clinton campaign believes the country provided the emails to WikiLeaks to sabotage the campaign against Donald Trump.
Wasserman Schultz, who is from the Broward County city of Weston, has been a fixture in state Democratic politics for more than two decades and became chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011.
“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.
Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination and deliver one of the biggest speeches of her political life – on par with declaring in China that “women’s rights are human rights” and more important than her 2008 concession speech in which she declared she’d placed “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling. She doesn’t think the heat will keep protesters away.
In a move that confused many and outraged some, presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Trump announced that Debbie Wasserman Schultz would be joining her campaign.
The Democrats had been trying to avoid the divide that was apparent in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention last week. The Bernie Sanders supporter from MI says despite all the thunder, it didn’t rain too heavily there.
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon, a Sanders delegate, said he’s prepared to vote for Clinton. Sanders generated enormous enthusiasm among young people and liberals during the Democratic primary, voters Hillary Clinton needs to show up for her in November.
During an interview with CNN Sanders said he wasn’t shocked by it.
“She’s been quarantined”, it quoted a top Democrat said of Wasserman Schultz. The protests this week in Philadelphia include demonstrations outside the convention called “Crash the Party” and “Shut Down The DNC”.
“Looks like the Bernie people will fight”, Trump tweeted Sunday morning.
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Mr Sanders will also address the convention tonight, along with First Lady Michelle Obama.
