Earlier on Monday, the outgoing DNC chair was met with boos by protesters at an event for Florida delegates, and Sanders delegates seemed willing to boo Wasserman Schultz off the main stage during prime time. Bernie Sanders politically during the primaries.
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Sanders is scheduled to address the convention Monday night.
At Brazille’s direction, the DNC issued a statement apologizing to Sanders for the emails, which included staff members suggesting someone should question Sanders’ Jewish faith. However, this scandal only makes the Democrats appear to be just as disconnected as the Republicans.
In the wake of the email leak, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would step down by the end of this week’s convention. “Those words do not reflect the spirit of this party, this party of Franklin Roosevelt, of justice and peace, of Lyndon Johnson. I don’t consider Bernie to be a Democrat”.
This is how the Democratic Party would draw Bernie Sanders supporters into the fold, rally the troops for Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in November?
Kent Willis, a Sanders delegate from Gainesville, said he helped organize the protest to draw attention to the party’s unfair treatment of Sanders. “From today onward we continue the fight”.
“Now look, we all know the party’s emails were hacked”, she said. And she still doesn’t know if she can support Clinton in the general election. He said it was imperative to elect Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. “I’m still not sure”.
Nothing in the emails, released by WikiLeaks, says to us that Sanders might have won the Democratic presidential nomination had the DNC not played favorites.
“This is going to be a big contrast to what we saw in Cleveland last week”, campaign manager Robby Mook said Monday morning. “But reality is, is that she has stepped aside and the convention is going to be very unified”. “[Hillary Clinton’s] campaign and her message this week is that we’re stronger together, we can solve our problems, we can begin to project a better country with a better future for everybody and tonight we begin that conversation”.
“I believe my role here is to campaign in Wisconsin for the U.S. Senate seat and campaign for the Clinton-Kaine ticket”.
“Both China and Russian Federation have the full capability to do this”, he said.
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“Instead of picking somebody and you don’t have to go with Pocahontas, you don’t have to go that far”, he said.
