The center of gravity in Democratic politics has shifted decidedly to the left in the four years since the party’s last national convention. “And we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine!”
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Sanders took the stage to a sustained roar and shouts of “We love you, Bernie”.
In O’Regan’s estimation, Sanders was the victim of a party establishment and broken voting system that was rigged in favor of Clinton from the start. Yes, his most zealous supporters refuse to distinguish between Clinton and Donald Trump. “It’s what we believe and fight for”, he said.
“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here tonight”, Sanders said as his supporters and Clinton’s offered competing chants. For the next 60 seconds, Sanders tried to speak over boos that rained down. But after a night of division, the cheers won out.
Hillary Clinton is to become the first woman nominated for president by a major party.
She spoke approvingly of the Sanders supporters holding to their passion. The content of the emails reinforce the perception that Clinton and her surrogates can’t be trusted.
Obama also lauded Clinton, her husband’s former rival.
Even he acknowledged that his vote in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania might help deliver the presidency to Trump. “The story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done, so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two lovely, intelligent, black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”.
Sanders supporters seemed to be everywhere, often with a bigger presence than Clinton supporters, a jarring sight at an event where she is due to be formally nominated as the party’s presidential candidate.
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. Al Franken of Minnesota in an attempt to unify the crowd.
Later, on the convention floor, there were some boos, ostensibly from Sanders supporters, at mentions of Clinton. “Thank you, Bernie”, she said. And to repeat the point, if that latter point comes as a surprise to Sanders supporters, then they weren’t clear about who they were dealing with.
Silverman finished and stood next to a stunned Franken.
“You know it’s not a thing about what I want to unite the party, the one important thing that does unite the party is against Trump, but the Hillary people can’t get it in their minds that the superdelegates, that Hillary can’t beat Trump”.
Paul Simon played “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.
Some of that unity dissipated quickly, but the crowd mostly continued to cheer as one as New Jersey Sen.
CBS News’ Julianna Goldman recalled that the president (Obama, that is) has joked that Bill Clinton is the secretary of explaining stuff – and for the president’s r-eelection campaign, he did just that.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who took over for Rep.
The statement was signed by DNC leaders, though Wasserman Schultz’s name was notably absent. But that was not to last.
The soon-to-be nominee’s name drew boos on the convention floor.
“Bernie reminds us what Democrats fight for every day”.
The emails exacerbated the distrust of Clinton among some Sanders supporters who view her as a Washington insider who is only paying lip service to their goals of reining in Wall Street and eradicating income inequality. One Sanders delegate explained the phenomenon well in a tweet that summed up why the Bern keeps on burning. For all the talk about Republicans being only united in their disdain for Clinton, Democrats on Monday weren’t even able to manage that much togetherness. Sanders, as well as First Lady Michele Obama, is set to deliver a speech on Monday night. But she began her speech by thanking another progressive hero.
“It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues”, he said.
“A ham sandwich could beat Trump and she’s not going to beat him”.
“We’re already seeing a change in leadership, and that’s exactly what we need”, Hulvey said. “But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 per cent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues”. “It also calls for strong opposition to job-killing free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, he said. But Clinton herself will be watching the festivities?- including a speech by former President Bill Clinton -? from her home in NY.
Democrats could have avoided this chaos had they removed Schultz a long time ago, or better yet, never put her in the position in the first place.
We did not win this by selling out, Russell said.
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Wasserman Schultz had announced earlier in the day that she would not gavel open the convention. And a bit after the proceedings began, the Democratic National Committee issued a formal apology to Sanders. Peskov also denied reports that Trump’s foreign policy adviser Carter Page during his visit to Moscow earlier this month met with Putin’s chief of staff. He spoke directly to supporters, sent them texts and made an appeal as the final speaker Monday.
