Still, he didn’t hold Sanders’ cooperation on the roll-call vote against him, and he left the door open to supporting Clinton. Obama needs to make the case for a President Hillary Clinton, cast Trump as too big a risk in this unsafe world and fire up the coalition that twice elected him president – African-Americans, young people, women, Latinos and liberals. One could have reasonably assumed they wanted to avoid hearing a boring, rote speech by long-time Clinton surrogate Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, but among the many convention attendees filtering out to use the restroom or wait in interminable lines for greasy sports arena food were several hundred Sanders delegates intent on making their anger known.
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No, Bill Clinton faced a trickier task: getting more people to like the newly minted Democratic nominee.
The supporters, many of whom were delegates, entered the tent around 7:15 p.m. and staged a sit-in.
Demonstrators protest outside the Wells Fargo Center, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, as Hillary Clinton was formally nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate.
On Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton, a meticulous and shrewd strategist, will entrust the primetime spot to the man she married in 1975 and helped navigate the upper rungs of elective office. They have also demanded an end to superdelegates, who are not bound to a particular candidate.
As a group of Sanders supporters entered the media tent, they were swarmed by reporters with cameras and iPhones.
Polls show Hillary Clinton would be the most disliked presidential candidate in history if it weren’t for Republican nominee Donald Trump, who’s even less liked.
“It’s not just about the person”, the single mother of four told NBC News.
Sanders delegates – attending the Democratic convention in Philadelphia – voted to create a new statewide grass-roots group whose goal is to tilt the NY state party to the left.
Sanders spoke to the delegates on Monday, saying no one was more disappointed than he that he would not be the nominee. We’re showing that we’re upset with the way things went. “There is a certain finality to it”.
Davis and others claimed that Democrats “rigged” elections in several states to secure the nomination for Clinton through voter fraud and other tactics – claims that party leaders and some outside observers have staunchly denied. “This is about saving our children”, she said. This is a really important point for you to take out of your convention. Bernie delegates and supporters met and made a decision to march to the media tent “quietly” and “respectfully” she added. “DemExit” has become a common chant and hashtag on social media for the Never Hillary and Bernie or Bust crowd, who threaten that they’ll leave the the party if it doesn’t address their concerns. After Sanders moved for the roll-call vote to be done by acclamation, handing the nomination to Clinton without a formal count, the floor erupted in a sustained applause with hardly a dissent to be heard.
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The longstanding bitterness between Sanders’ 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 favourites during the primaries and worked to undermine Sanders’ campaign.
