Barbara Boxer, left, with presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, whom she has known for decades. It took almost five minutes for the cheering to stop in order for Senator Sanders to even begin his speech, but by the end he made it clear and unequivocal: He fully supports Hillary Clinton for president, and he believes that it is in everyone’s best interest to stand behind her.
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“A lot of the anger is they felt like their votes didn’t matter, that their voice didn’t matter”, Ahmad said, explaining the discord on display by Sanders supporters.
Clinton “has to win them over”, she said.
“This is not going to be a process of the troops take orders”, said California Sanders delegate Norman Solomon, who has been conducting regular surveys of 1,250 of his peers.
But Bill Clinton and the others – who include mothers who have lost children to gun violence or in clashes with police – will also have the unstated mission of mending fences with Sanders’ army of vocal young activists. Schultz, who might be the second least-liked person at the convention Monday other than Donald Trump, relinquished her opportunity to gavel open the convention, and was booed at a delegate breakfast Monday morning.
She offered a thinly veiled jab at Trump while discussing how her family has had to adapt to the shrill tone of today’s politics.
“We are going to continue this movement”, Stein said to raucous applause.
“Our motto is, “when they go low, we go high”. He feels people should know her as well as he does, and is writing the speech himself, said an aide to the former president.
“Couldn’t be more proud & our country has been blessed to have her as FLOTUS”, he posted on Twitter. “I love you, Michelle”. Bernie Sanders’ speech last night during the Democratic National Convention, a progressive friend wondered whether he could be helping Donald Trump by not using the occasion as a more emphatic push for party unity.
Sanders had called on his backers to get behind the Democratic nominee twice on Monday before his primetime endorsement speech.
“I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years”.
“This is monumental”, said a teary Yvonne Reeves-Chong, a Clinton delegate from Missouri.
“None of them want her. The people who voted for Bernie”, Niswander said.
The longstanding bitterness between the Vermont senator’s supporters and Clinton’s seemed to grow worse over the past few days after a trove of hacked emails showed that officials at the Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primaries and worked to undermine Sanders’ campaign.
WikiLeaks at the weekend released almost 20,000 emails from between January 2015 and May 2016, gleaned by hackers who apparently raided the accounts of seven DNC leaders. Marlon Kimpson said, that will bring necessary vigor to Clinton’s campaign. In North Carolina, he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that, “our politicians have totally failed you”.
This has started out as a coronation ceremony for Secretary Clinton.
The 69-year-old Democratic icon, while no longer the charismatic speaker he once was, remains a powerful force on the national stage.
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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.
