“It made me a little more enthusiastic about her”, said Levi Asher, a Sanders delegate from Farmington.
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Mr Sanders said Mrs Clinton must be elected President based on her ideas and her leadership.
Sanders attempted to quell the disunity during a 30-minute convention speech, telling his impassioned supporters that while he understood their frustrations, ensuring Republican nominee Donald Trump does not attain the White House is paramount.
Sen. Bernie Sanders tries tonight to calm his angry supporters during his prime time address at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Penn. His backers erupted rapturously when he entered the delegation’s room this morning, cheering and standing on chairs to hail the primary campaign’s runner-up. “And they’re making a bad name”. “That is risky stuff”.
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, we don’t stoop to their level, ‘ she said”.
As competing chants of Bernie and Hillary swamped the room, an increasingly exasperated Ms Silverman said: “To the “Bernie or Bust” people, you’re being ridiculous”.
While Sanders encouraged his supporters to fall in line with Clinton, dozens were cited after they climbed barricades outside the convention, and many expressed disgust with party leaders after leaked emails suggested they had favored Clinton over the Vermont senator during the primary race. A spokesman says the use of the rest of the rooms, though, are out of their hands, but will ask the hotel to reserve a space for the Sanders delegate’s to meet beginning on Tuesday.
Vanquished White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Monday told a riven and lively Democratic convention that his rival Hillary Clinton must win the U.S. presidential election in November. That doesn’t represent all of us.
“There are many things she could do; I don’t expect her to do much”, he said.
“I wouldn’t vote for her for dog catcher”, said Melissa Arab, of Shelby Township, Michigan.
“In terms of how the DNC may have treated him along the way, they may have a legitimate complaint”, Pelosi said. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation and the announcement that she would not gavel in the opening of the convention.
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His supporters called the former First Lady “a danger to the country” just days before she is officially nominated as the Democrat candidate to face Donald Trump and the Republicans.
