And Hillary Clinton, who championed the deal when she was secretary of state, has said she opposes the current proposal because of its potential impact on US workers. “The choice is not even close”.
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“These responded to Sanders’s positions and those of his supporters”, he said.
The citations capped a day of demonstrations around the city on the opening day of the convention, at which Clinton is expected to receive the party’s nomination for president. But Sanders likely won’t let go of his agenda, even though he’s supporting his former opponent.
Sanders made attacks on Wall Street a central theme of his presidential campaign, and called for structural reforms in the Fed.
The most notable imprint of Sanders, the senator of Vermont, on the platform is the inclusion of his signature call for raising the minimum federal wage to 15 USA dollars an hour from the current 7.25 dollars per hour.
Addressing the convention Monday night, Sanders urged his supporters to vote for Clinton, generating a chorus of boos and chants of, “Bernie!”
“I’m really annoyed”, said MI delegate Bruce Fealk. The Clinton and Sanders campaigns joined forces by syncing their floor whip teams to present a united front on the floor.
Over the weekend, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following the release of almost 20,000 leaked emails showing DNC staffers favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary. While she has often avoided overt politics during her almost eight years in the White House, her frustration with Trump’s rise was evident.
“I’m going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton and to keep focusing, keep focusing on the real issues facing the American people”, Sanders said on CNN.
Clinton was due to campaign in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday. And then of course Thursday night to hear Hillary Clinton accept the nomination to be the next – and the first woman – president of the United States.
His supporters were already dismayed last week when Clinton passed over liberal favorites like U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA to select the more moderate U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice presidential running mate.
On top of that, Sanders’s press secretary Simone D. Sanders has also been sending out messages on Twitter contending that the election was stolen by the Clinton campaign.
Donna Brazile, the DNC vice chairwoman and soon to be the interim chair through the election, is moving up in the party following Wasserman Schultz’s downfall over Wikileaks’ publication of secret DNC emails. In an email earlier in the day to delegates, he said the credibility of his movement would be “damaged by booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays”.
A democratic socialist, the USA senator from Vermont galvanized young and liberal voters with his calls to rein in Wall Street and eradicate income inequality. Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement last week, giving Trump an expected post-convention bump in the polls.
Clinton is promising a stark contrast to last week’s Republican gathering, an often chaotic affair that featured a heavy dose of pessimism about the economy and national security. Sanders’ supporters believe Kaine is not liberal enough.
The controversy over some 19,000 leaked DNC emails, however, threatened to complicate those plans.
How the emails were stolen hasn’t been confirmed, but the Clinton campaign pointed the finger at Russian hackers.
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“We don’t have information right now about that, but what we have is a kind of bromance going on between Vladimir Putin and Trump which is distinct from this leak”, Clinton adviser John Podesta said in an MSNBC interview.
