It’s exactly the start to the convention that the Democrats didn’t want.
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A statement from incoming interim party leader, Donna Brazile, and six other officials said: “On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and honest apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email”. Her resignation is the result of a series of emails appearing to show DNC staffers plotting against Sanders’ campaign during the primary.
Another participant in the bridge march, Deborah Armstrong, of Spokane, Washington, said she and her husband went bankrupt because of his health problems, which required a heart transplant.
“We have a lot more transparency now (thanks to electronic news sources like Wikileaks)”. “We’re going to have a convention this week that highlights success stories”. It was also announced that she would not officially open the convention – a decision that was taken to ensure prime time television coverage was not dominated by sights of her being booed. Tick Segerblom, a Sanders delegate, said via email on Monday. “I was surprised the way people caved in”, she said, “and said they were going to vote for Hillary”.
Sanders is out to block the Trans Pacific Partnership from becoming law. But Sanders’ aides reached out to the Clinton campaign Monday afternoon to express concerns that supporters would still try to disrupt the proceedings, according to a Democratic official.
Sanders supporters were already dismayed last week when Clinton passed over liberal favourites like US Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA to select the more moderate Kaine as her running mate.
Sanders’ supporters booed as a pastor leading the invocation prayer mentioned Clinton’s name, setting the stage for a raucous chorus of cheers and jeers as successive speakers took to the podium. “Not good”, he told thousands of supporters in a sweltering hotel ballroom.
WOMAN: I’m not a Republican, but I have to agree with Ted Cruz. He has not asked us to vote against our hearts. 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 USA workers.
Some of the loudest chants in support of Sanders have come from the California delegation.
I’m a Hillary Clinton delegate, and I was wearing some Clinton paraphernalia.
Clinton campaign officials blamed the hack, which is now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Russian military intelligence agencies. “And I will also do everything I can this fall to elect Hillary Clinton so that we have a Democrat in the White House”. He campaigned today in Roanoke, Virginia. “It was a big mistake because he is the exact opposite of what all of the Bernie people want”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton was one of the architects if the trade deal when she was a Secretary of State, but, after being pressured by Bernie Sanders, came out against TPP. He never had a chance. “We are retying to get progressive people elected and stop the corruption”.
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The statement from incoming interim party leader Donna Brazile and six other officials said the comments in the emails “do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process”.
