“To tell us to do that”, said Ryan Lopez, a California delegate, of Sanders’ request, “it goes against everything that we’re fighting for”. “I don’t love Hillary, but we can’t afford Trump”.
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The Republican presidential nominee has done business in Russian Federation. At least Trump is an unknown quantity, ” he said.
But Democratic Party of Wisconsin officials either don’t see or are in denial about the anger that is still out there. She was referring to DNC emails leaked by WikiLeaks that showed executives disparaging the Sanders campaign. She is a St. Charles County Democratic committeewoman.
Bernie Sanders urged reluctant supporters Monday to vote for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in order to bar Donald Trump’s path to the White House, slamming the Republican as a “demagogue. I think I read he is an atheist”.
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.
She made her comments at a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg News Monday in Philadelphia. As the DNC kicked off on Monday, Sanders fans were heard booing and heckling several pro-Clinton speakers on the convention floor. “We’ve dealt with the issue”.
The Wells Fargo Arena in Philly is so isolated that it takes shuttles, golf carts and lots of walking to get where you need to be, she said. She did the right thing. I used to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He added that she has worked hard and “it’s not an easy job”.
The emails exacerbated claims by Sanders supporters that the primary elections were rigged against him. He calls those emails “completely unacceptable” and noted that the official involved has apologized.
He says that, “by every standard Hillary Clinton won a decisive victory”.
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”.
Media captionWhat’s the point of a party convention anyway? But, as a result of this disclosure Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign.
But Sanders dropped out of the race after it became clear he could not win at the convention without seizing a majority of the Clinton-friendly superdelegates, a virtual impossibility. Instead, many said they would opt for Jill Stein, the presumptive nominee of the Green Party, whose views, they emphasized, very closely aligned with the Vermont senator’s.
But Wasserman Schulz’s plans to open the convention Monday afternoon – risking more boos on live television – raised the possibility of further drama.
Allen is the former deputy commander of U. S. Central Command and previously oversaw North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan. He blamed NAFTA and said it is essential to rework all US trade deals.
Some activists hoped to disrupt the convention. Cory Booker and Vermont Sen. Sanders was delivering the night’s closing address, just after Massachusetts Sen.
Yet many die-hard backers of Sanders they weren’t ready to coalesce around Clinton’s presidential bid despite his pleas.
Democrats are opening their national convention in Philadelphia eager to show off a forward-looking party united behind Hillary Clinton. Sanders’ supporters believe Kaine is not liberal enough. The Florida congresswoman is leaving her post following the publication of thousands of emails suggesting the Democratic National Committee favored Clinton during her primary contest with Sanders, despite vowing to remain neutral.
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In recent weeks, Clinton has accepted endorsements from former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, both of whom served Republican presidents.
