Democrats gathering for a national convention in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton for president were rocked by the news Sunday afternoon that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz will resign following the release of thousands of hacked emails that put the party in an unflattering light.
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The leaked emails raised questions over the DNC’s impartiality as presumptive nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton was locked in a tense primary battle with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
In one leaked email, a DNC official wondered whether Sanders’ religious beliefs could be used against him, questioning whether the candidate may be an atheist. “She deserves an opportunity to gavel us in, turn it over to the permanent chair, and she deserves an opportunity, I think, to also close us out”.
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation one day before the start of her party’s quadrennial convention.
Tim Canova, a Democrat running for a Florida House seat, called Wasserman Schultz’s antics in the DNC “reprehensible”.
Representative Marcia Fudge of OH was named as the permanent chair of the Democratic National Convention, who will now be the chair throughout the convention process, performing numerous public functions that would have been done by Wasserman Shultz. This goes right to the top, and as far as whether or not there’s going to be blowback this week, I think the blowback has already begun.
The DNC temporarily curtailed Sanders’ access to the list in December 2015 because the organization accused the insurgent campaign of illegally tapping into confidential voter information compiled by the Clinton campaign.
Sanders delegates are also fuming over the pick Sen.
“She was using DNC resources to monitor what my campaign was doing, how it was doing”, he said.
The Democrat familiar with the decision said it was done in hopes of preventing chaos on the convention floor among Sanders supporters.
Before Clinton and her husband were the power couple we know today, they were just two law students at Yale growing up in the ’70s: “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl”.
Asked about Kaine on CNN’s State of the Union, he added: “Are his political views different than mine?”
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The identity of the hackers remains unclear, but Clinton campaign officials say agents of the Russian government hacked the emails and have been leaking them in support of Donald Trump’s campaign.
