Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation one day before the start of her party’s quadrennial convention.
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Wasserman Schultz on Sunday announced she would resign from the DNC after the four-day Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week.
On Friday, some 19,000 emails were published on the website Wikileaks that suggested the Democratic National Committee played favourites during the primary, when Bernie Sanders fell short against Hillary Clinton. The Florida congresswoman was greeted with boos Monday morning by delegates who would certainly have repeated the spectacle.
Donna Brazile, the DNC’s Vice Chairwoman, would step in as interim Chairwoman, DNC, Brazile previously ran Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign and is a regular on cable news, a tweet by Communications Director Luis Miranda said.
As they arrived in Philadelphia, there was a sense of relief among some Democratic delegates that they could begin to put the Wasserman Schultz controversy behind them.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz made the announcement Sunday, saying she will resign at the end of the convention. As he accepted the Republican nomination, Trump said: “The legacy of Hillary Clinton is death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”.
“My first priority has always been serving the people of the 23rd district of Florida and I look forward to continuing to do that as their member of Congress for years to come”, she wrote. However, Wikileaks showed that the anti-Sanders bias was real and that Wasserman Schultz did not intervene to correct her subordinates.
“Her resignation opens up the possibility of new leaders at the top of the Democratic Party that will stand with working people”, he said.
Sanders said Wasserman Schultz, a United States representative from Florida, had made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party.
The scene was a troubling display of tumult for Democrats who awoke Monday to a firestorm over hacked party emails. When Sanders took the stage as the night’s final speaker, he acknowledged that many of his supporters were disappointed.
Vermont senator Sanders had said Ms Wasserman Schultz “should not be chair” of the Democratic National Committee.
Last week, during the Republican convention, Wasserman Schultz used a briefing with reporters to claim that the gathering had brought to the fore an “anti-Semitic environment that Donald Trump embraces” and that the “anti-Semitism that is threaded throughout the Republican Party of late goes straight to the feet of Donald Trump”.
According to NBC News, opposition to Wasserman Schultz among Democrats “spread like wildfire”, according to a Democratic source.
The furor was a blow to a party keen on projecting steadiness in contrast to the volatility of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who was formally nominated last week, and overshadowed preparations in Philadelphia for Clinton’s coronation as the Democratic nominee to face Trump in the November 8 White House election. Then the convention could become the Clinton promotional blitz her campaign – and the party’s deposed chairwoman – worked so hard to build.
“I’ll do what needs to be done”, Al Simon, a Sanders delegate from Windsor, said when asked about voting for Clinton. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals who has emerged as one of the Democrats’ toughest critics of Trump. While not pushing Clinton to choose a kindred spirit as her vice presidential candidate and running mate, they still seemed to be shaking up a party status quo.
At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme.
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