It was an organic action, with Sanders delegates deciding spontaneously to express their discontentment with a dramatic gesture. Probably not. Most Sanders supporters are expected to back her. “I’m Hillary Rodham. Who are you?'”
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On Wednesday morning, two MI delegates interrupted a breakfast with allegations of unfair treatment and a “rigged” primary process.
“We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to have it”, said Derel Stroud, a Sanders delegate from New Jersey.
“And you’re going to make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president”, declared Streep. Fifty-five percent said they were less enthusiastic.
The base-boosting strategy has some Democrats anxious Clinton is ceding too much ground to her opponent. They said the crowd can create change themselves without the Democratic party and the mainstream media, contending the media contributed to a rigged election. And they’re not listening to the guy who brought them-or whom they brought-to the party.
Sanders’ motion to suspend the rules of the convention, and make Clinton the nominee “by acclamation”, was seconded.
At Trump’s convention last week, Clinton was the target of blistering criticism of her character and judgment, a sharp contrast to the warm and passionate woman described by her husband. “It was Occupy-style…It came together very organically in the most old-fashioned way”.
Despite that, in the waning weeks of the Democratic primary, the Sanders camp undertook an organized effort to convert superdelegates to their side, arguing that Sanders was better positioned to defeat Trump.
The NATO treaty is “absolutely central to our security” and “I don’t think he knows what Article 5 is”, Biden said, referring to the section of the treaty that requires all signing nations to defend any member of the alliance who comes under attack.
The former first lady, senator and secretary of state took a monumental step on her quest to become the US’ first female commander-in-chief, by besting party challenger, US Senator Bernie Sanders. His message here was clear: She says she’ll do something, then does it, both in her personal and her professional life. “We feel cheated by them, we feel they should not be speaking for any of us”. She will fight for us all with her heart, her soul and her mind. “This is our one shot of doing that”.
That’s despite Sanders’ 22-point victory in in the state in February. Translation: You don’t snap your fingers and with “great management” change the whole political system, so choose someone instead who knows how to improve it.
“I’m protesting the fact that the Democratic party is not democratic”, said Trinity Ledesma, a devout Sanders supporter from Washington in Philadelphia to serve as an alternate for her state’s delegate.
“It’s a sort of structural exclusion”, said MacLeod, one of several Sanders delegates who wore tape over their mouths during Monday’s session. “Sanders has a job to do”, she said. Republicans are making ineffective arguments (few voters think that she personally killed victims invoked at the Republican National Convention) when they had really strong ones that would undermine her image of competence (e.g., she bollixed up Hillarycare, was blindsided by the spread of al-Qaeda, had no coherent approach to the Arab Spring). “She never quit on me”. “As of yesterday, I guess, officially our campaign ended”.
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But Beckett isn’t giving up on the political movement that Sanders started. “And that silence speaks volumes”. She said the process had begun at the state level, and culminated at the convention in Philadelphia, which was stage-managed to promote the party ticket rather than to allow voters a voice. But Bernal shows that there is a band of Sanders delegates who embraced his crusade but who now believe they have a better strategy than he does. Her convention has made little mention of the economic insecurity and anxiety that has, in part, fueled Trump’s rise with white, working-class voters.
