A California delegate for Bernie Sanders demonstrated that not all of the Vermont senator’s supporters inside the Democratic National Convention believe one has to remain firmly in the “Never Hillary” camp to continue Sanders’ political revolution. John Lewis, 76, not second the nomination?
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Amaru is a graduate of Geoergia State University and a former Atlanta resident.
“I would best characterize it as being sent on a wild goose chase”, Smith said. Her poise and presence fundamentally changed how I would claim my own space in the world.
Smith said delegates may still protest during the Kaine’s nomination or during his speech, however. “As an immigrant, a combat veteran, a woman of color, and my mothers’ daughter, I am American”.
“Because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”, she said. Larry Sanders, who, according to The Nation, Bernie Sanders credits with introducing him to radical ideals when they were growing up, has been politically active in the progressive scene in Great Britain, where he moved in the late 1960s. We’ve come too far.
“We’re passionate. We’ve invested a lot in it, and we have a lot of people that are first-time participants in the political process”, Adams said.
Lewis’ participation has an important historical footnote.
“They really agitate people more every time they stand up and do the Hillary Clinton hoo-rah hoo-rah”, he said.
“Tonight we will shatter that glass ceiling again”.
“At the end of the day”, Laesch told me, the marginal cell phone reception failing to hide the bitterness in his voice, “she has done nothing to unify this party”.
At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Mrs Clinton called for a vote for Barack Obama by acclamation, ending the roll call vote in an effort to unite the party behind his candidacy.
“Florida’s critical to Hillary, but there are many options, other ways she could become president without winning Florida”.
“And you know what they say about Brooklyn, ‘You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you can’t take Brooklyn out of the boy'”. Podesta said. “And when they did the forensics, they found out who did it”.
But she had full support from the stage, with stirring speeches from Sanders and liberal favorite U.S. Sen.
Chappaqua resident Hillary Clinton sealed her name in history Tuesday when she was formally nominated as the Democratic candidate for president.
The roll call goes by states, in alphabetical order, with no indication that leaders will rearrange the order so New York, Clinton’s home state, can cast the deciding votes.
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Daniel Carter, 19, a Sanders delegate from Florida, was one of those outside, holding a Sanders sign against the glass with the words #BlackLivesMatter written on it. Carter said the mainstream media “blacked out Bernie the entire campaign”.
