Sen. Bernie Sanders wasn’t really a Democrat anyway.
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Kruel said she had the feeling Wasserman Schultz had been warned about who she was but the conversation was cordial. She will remain in Philadelphia until Friday when she formally steps down as leader of the committee.
Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama headline day one of the Democratic convention today.
“These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process”, the statement said.
Protesters and delegates marching for sanders say the developments supports their claims the DNC was biased towards Clinton.
“It is so wonderful to be able to be here with my home state”, Ms Wasserman Schultz told the Florida delegation at the morning meeting, to heckles and jeers. “The Florida that we know is united”. “The Florida that we know is going to make sure that we continue to make jobs”. Those attendees began to chant, “Shame!”.
Several Democrats in the crowd said they could not vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances. In return for this massive donation, a contributor would be booked in a top Philadelphia hotel and land spots at “an exclusive roundtable and campaign briefing with high-level Democratic officials”, one email revealed.
Privately, some Democratic officials think Wasserman Schultz is at risk of losing her August 30 primary to Canova. Right now, Bernie’s brigades believe the system was rigged against their man from the get-go, and WikiLeaks has only confirmed and reinforced that belief.
“Any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”, Sanders told delegates, spurring a cascade of cheers.
“You will see me every day between now and November 8th on the campaign trail, and we will lock arms and we will not stand down”, she insisted. It also sapped some of her energy coming out of Republican Donald Trump’s chaotic convention last week and the well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate, Virginia Sen. CNN and Brazile mutually agreed to suspend her contract as a political commentator for the network after the announcement was made on Sunday. In the fight thats ripping the Democratic Party down the middle, the her Im with is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
In terms of convention operations, the DNC Rules Committee tapped Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to fill in as permanent chair of the convention to gavel in and out each session, according to a DNC source.
Prior to Wasserman Schultz’s resignation, five of the nine elected leaders in the DNC were women. The Clinton campaign opened up speaking spots for his supporters. He attended a rally with delegates and promised to keep fighting for reforms.
“How about that for disloyalty in terms of Hillary Clinton”. What that means is that Canova is now only $700,000 below Debbie Wasserman Schultz in total fundraising. “No loyalty. None whatsoever”. “Debbie was totally loyal to Hillary and Hillary threw her under a bus and it didn’t take more than five minutes to make that decision”.
Canova’s campaign also has national support from various factions of the party’s progressive wing, including the Progressive Democrats of America. Trump senior policy adviser Paul Manafort called the Clinton campaign statements “pretty desperate” and “pretty absurd”.
Bernie Sanders tried to calm tensions among his delegates Monday at the Democratic National Convention but some weren’t in a listening mood, seething over a lengthy primary campaign and a damaging email disclosure.
And how deliciously ironic that, per WikiLeaks, the party of identity politics, which revels in denouncing the Muslim-bashers within the Republican ranks, would offer as one of the anti-Sanders selling points in Appalachian states speculation that he might not be a Jew but an outright atheist.
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Sanders, who has endorsed Clinton and will speak on her behalf to the convention on Monday, said he would have preferred she pick U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA, a favorite of the party’s liberal wing, as her No. 2. “But aside from all of that, it is an outrage and sad that you would have people in important positions in the DNC trying to undermine my campaign”.
