Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the embattled outgoing chair of the Democratic National Committee, was forcibly driven out of her own state delegation’s breakfast Monday amid vocal and unwieldy protests by Bernie Sanders’ supporters.
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She added in her comments to the newspaper: “This needs to be all about making sure that everyone knows that Hillary Clinton would make the best president”.
As of right now, Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz is resigning as the chair of the Democratic National Convention. One top Democratic official described Wasserman Schultz to CNN as “quarantined”. Bernard Sanders’ supporters said Monday they’re trying to recruit a challenger to Sen. The Vermont senator is scheduled to speak to his delegates in a private meeting Monday afternoon, and will address the full convention in a prime-time speech Monday night.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump today blamed his rival Hillary Clinton for the email scandal that has hit the Democratic party resulting in resignation of head of the Democratic National Committee. Activists jeered and waved signs reading “Thanks for the ‘help, ‘ Debbie”.
“We’ll accept [Clinton’s] nomination if that’s what we have to do…but we’re never going to accept her!” the Sanders supporter said gesturing at the chairwoman speaking on stage. Wikileaks’ release of internal Democratic National Committee emails confirmed liberals’ worst suspicions about a DNC that some felt had its thumb on the scales for Clinton over Sanders.
Former Sen. Bob Graham vouched for Wasserman Schultz.
This article has been updated with a statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday that the agency was investigating “a cyber intrusion involving the DNC”. “I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the country to ensure her victory”.
Experts say the DNC emails bear evidence of passing through Russian hands and look to be efforts by the Russians to first, cover their tracks and cast doubt on their role in the hack, and second, influence the USA election towards Donald Trump, who has spoken favorable of Russian President Vladimir Putin and advocated weakening North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Trump dismissed the suggestion in a tweet: “The joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC emails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”. Pointing fingers at Russian Federation won’t do much to stop unhappy voters who feel like the party is serving itself more than it serves them. He planned to march Monday from City Hall to the convention site. The New York businessman was formally nominated for president at a chaotic Republican convention in Cleveland last week. The expectation was that this convention would be poorly run, the logistics of getting around and reporting would be hard, events would be regularly disrupted by protests, and the general tenor of the whole thing would be a slapped together show run by a JV political team. But one of the main missions of the DNC will be to project an optimistic tone for the new Clinton-Kaine ticket. They don’t have any firm conclusions, but said anger among Sanders delegates has only grown over the last week.
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The outbursts are an early sign of how Sanders’ supporters are going to continue to speak out loudly for him this week, pointing out that he won 45 percent of the vote in the Democratic Party primary. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager told ABC that the Kremlin orchestrated the release of the emails because it wants Trump to be elected president, which is a fairly insane development in this very insane election. Would I have preferred to see somebody like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton? Ahead of her speech to the VFW, Clinton secured the endorsement of retired Gen. John Allen, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command and a former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, overseeing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan.
