“But that’s not what will expand the progressive movement in this country”.
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Michelle Obama didn’t take on Trump quite like Elizabeth Warren is fond of – with direct, very personal jabs – but in her final speech to a Democratic National Convention as first lady, she delivered a withering takedown of the GOP nominee in her own, less sharp-edged way.
Comedian Sarah Silverman, a Sanders supporter, was more direct.
“Her resignation opens up the possibility of new leadership at the top of the Democratic Party”, he said.
The most important political moment of the night came when Sanders delivered the full-throated endorsement that the Clinton campaign had longed for.
“To the “Bernie or Bust” people, you’re being ridiculous”, she said, drawing a roar from the crowd and another round of competing cheers between Clinton and Sanders supporters.
Trying to pacify the Vermont senator’s supporters, the party’s leadership issued a formal apology for the “inexcusable remarks made over email”.
Delegates watch Senator Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25.
Democrats had hoped to project an image of unity at the convention, but the emails make that more hard. So does Clinton’s appointment of Wasserman Schultz as honorary chairwoman of her campaign’s 50-state program to elect Democrats.
The emails raise questions about whether Democratic Party leaders actively worked against Senator Bernie Sanders during the primary season. And he also contrasted the kind of vision Donald Trump has for the country to the one Clinton has for the country.
Because someone like Warren is a symbol of the aspirations of Democratic base voters-to break up the big Wall Street banks, for example-Clinton would never have seriously considered choosing her. “No surprise there”, he said. After a defiant speech defending his recently struck-down blanket restoration of felons’ rights order, McAuliffe told reporters that the more people know about Kaine, the more they’ll like him.
The evening came to include a real attempt at bringing together Sanders and Clinton’s supporters in the form of Sanders’s address, which was delayed for a few minutes. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves”, the first lady said.
Most Sanders delegates surveyed in a straw poll said they want to protest the nominations of both Clinton and her vice presidential pick, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, on the floor, said Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate from California and national coordinator of the independent “Bernie Delegates Network”.
There are obviously still fences to mend (see above), but the message Democrats aimed to send on the first night of their convention was clear: The party’s leading liberals are firmly behind Clinton. “But I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party”.
Other Bernie Sanders delegates from MI sat stone-faced as their candidate extolled the virtues of Hillary Clinton.
Obama seemed to acknowledge them, saying that when Hillary Clinton lost against her husband in 2008, she didn’t get “angry or disillusioned”.
Trump tweeted “hard to believe that Bernie Sanders has done such a complete fold”, and made another appeal to his supporters.
There was Warren, the MA senator and hero of the left who withheld her endorsement of Clinton until June, blasting away at Trump, which has become her favorite past-time on Twitter.
Mindful of the importance of motivating those Democratic voters who struggle to feel enthusiasm for Clinton, he also said, “My fellow Americans, we can not fall into complacency or indifference about this election, because still the only thing necessary for evil to be triumphant is for good people to do nothing”.
Ross – speaking at the Emergency Operation Center on Spring Garden on Sunday – said they are ready to handle the masses and don’t expect any problems, CBS Philly reported. She said the presidency couldn’t be “boiled down to 140 characters” and that “you can’t have a thin skin”. “The impact is on the level of enthusiasm”.
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The “Love Trumps Hate” signs and the “Clinton/Kaine” signs were almost outnumbered by the “No TPP” signs being furiously waved by delegates, signs that may just as easily have been proudly displayed by delegates at the Republican convention last week.
