Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves as he walks off the stage after checking out the podium before the start of the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Monday, July 25, 2016.
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Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Roy Temple, a superdelegate who supports Clinton, said he expects Sanders to make the case that Clinton is the best candidate to lead the U.S.
“Can we ask them to leave?”, called out a member of the group.
Much of Monday’s program appeared aimed at giving Sanders’ backers an opportunity to express their support for him and their frustration with Clinton.
“She stole the election!” someone else shouted.
The “oust Wasserman Schultz” movement kicked into full gear over the weekend, following the publication late last week of leaked emails, which seemed to show a plot by DNC officials to damage Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary. Republicans and Democrats have widely panned that position as unsafe and evidence of Trump’s lack of fitness for high office.
Sanders issued a statement Sunday saying Wasserman Schultz “has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party”.
In another Tweet, Trump says “bad judgment was on display” by DNC officials who criticized Clinton’s primary rival Bernie Sanders.
Vivirito said she would either write Sanders’ name in or vote for the Green Party’s Jill Stein – and she’s not the only Sanders supporter considering those options for November.
She replied: “I think its’s an all-hands-on-deck time”, and went on to say she would rely on Mr Obama as well as her husband.
Oversen said the reality of a “very scary candidate” in Trump as the GOP nominee should help galvanize support for Clinton.
The start of the party’s nominating convention in Philadelphia comes less than a week after Republicans formally nominated business mogul Donald Trump amid some signs of their own party’s splintering.
Delegates in response booed and shouted “no”. Some protesters held up signs that read “Bernie” and “E-MAILS” and shouted “Shame”, as she spoke.
Trump also called out Clinton’s pick of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as her choice for vice president, insinuating that Kaine “stands for the opposite” of Sanders’ platform.
Both Solomon and Smith said that the onus on bringing the party together has been on Hillary Clinton, and they say that she failed the progressives by not only their pushback on some key aspects of the Democratic Party platform which will officially be voted on this week, and the selection of Kaine.
“This is the real world that we live in”, Keady said.
The DNC email hack reportedly contained a lot of personal donor information, but Vox and other outlets have reported that “no bombshells have been discovered” in the leaked emails so far.
The rally will come almost three weeks after Biden speaks Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention.
In a post-convention “bump”, Trump pulled ahead in at least one opinion poll, after lagging Clinton in most national polls for months.
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“And I’m also going to by relying on President Obama”, she said. The survey was conducted July 22-24 and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. She waged a monthslong battle to defeat the unexpectedly tough challenge from Sanders, 74.
