They wanted to figure out how to react to the controversy over leaked DNC emails that’s led to the resignation of the Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the cancelation of her appearance at the podium on Day One of the convention.
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While it’s still a longshot that she loses her bid for reelection, Nathan Gonzales of the nonpartisan Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report told Fox News that Wasserman Schultz’s recent troubles “raise the natural question” about whether she is at risk in her primary contest.
Taking her place is Northeast Ohio woman Marcia Fudge, whose big task of the night was to unite everyone at the convention.
Much of Monday’s program appeared aimed at giving Sanders’ backers an opportunity to express their frustration before the convention moved on to focus on speakers who strongly support Clinton, such as first lady Michelle Obama.
Sanders’ delegates chanted the Vermont senator’s name during the start of the convention and booed lustily at early mentions of rival Hillary Clinton.
It’s a down-ballot twist on how Bernie Sanders, who has endorsed Canova, was able to raise more than $235 million during his primary race against the far more politically connected and initially better-funded Hillary Clinton. Sanders was derided as being paranoid during the campaign for suggesting the national party was in cahoots with Hillary Clinton.
“I wish I was more surprised than I was”, Henson said.
“We haven’t been treated fairly for an entire year”, said Carrie Gardner, a Sanders delegate from Westchester.
Clinton, who promises to tackle income inequality and rein in Wall Street if she becomes president, is eager to portray former reality TV star Trump as too unstable to sit in the Oval Office. Sanders supporters protested in Philadelphia this weekend. “With news of Donna Brazile stepping in as interim chair for the Democratic National Committee”, the network said, “CNN and Brazile have mutually agreed to temporarily suspend her contract as a contributor for the network effective immediately”.
Clinton’s team hoped Wasserman Schultz’s resignation – along with an apology from the DNC to Sanders and his supporters – would keep the convention floor calm.
Sanders’ appeal was enough for Deborah Adams, of Cheraw, South Carolina, who served as a whip for the 14 Sanders delegates from her state’s delegation.
But a trove of emails dumped last week by WikiLeaks reveals that the DNC worked to torpedo Sanders anyway, turning what ought to be a neutral agent of the Democratic Party’s general interests into an adjunct of the Clinton campaign.
If the party’s “super delegate” rules, virtually guaranteeing Clinton the nomination, did not make that clear, the email leaks did.
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Sanders tried to urge his delegates to see the larger picture – defeating Trump, who he called “a bully and a demagogue”. The Democrat establishment needed a scapegoat, and she is it.
