A protestor chants through a megaphone as he marches during a demonstration in downtown on Sunday, July 24, 2016, in Philadelphia.
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Even before the affair was gaveled in Monday, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would quit after the convention – the biggest scalp from the Wikileaks hack of DNC e-mails.
First, her campaign acted quickly to force Wasserman Schultz to step down from the DNC chair – as Sanders has long demanded – effective at the end of the convention.
“We have to make sure that we move together in a unified way”.
Franken called last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland “one of the ugliest conventions that I’ve ever seen” and Trump’s speech “one of the scariest I’ve ever seen”. Now, the Clinton and Trump campaigns are fighting over Russia’s role in the release of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emails.
The FBI put out a statement saying it was investigating.
In response to the email leak, Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, implied Russians are behind the email leak.
But Sanders also was heckled and booed when he said voting for Clinton is key to defeating Donald Trump.
Fealk said he viewed the emergence of hacked DNC emails, which suggested favoritism of Clinton, as a revelation and evidence of the party’s disrespect for progressives. Elizabeth Warren, who will be the keynote speaker. I think, as I said, it’s what we talked about six months ago. So will Sen. Elizabeth Warren of MA, another populist firebrand with strong appeal on the Democratic left.
Sanders will address the Democratic convention the same night that first lady Michelle Obama and immigration activist Astrid Silva will speak.
Speaking to his convention delegates, just hours before the Democrats opened a convention to nominate his primary rival, the Vermont senator tried to settle roiling tensions between his supporters and the party rank-and-file lining up behind Clinton.
“Nobody has apologised. But this does not come as a surprise to me or my supporters”.
Republicans relished Democrats’ pre-convention tumult, just days after they bumped and bumbled through their own gathering.
“Wow, the Republican Convention went so smoothly compared to the Dems total mess”. She said she was not now planning on any action and wanted to hear from Sanders.
Ellison and others said they’d be willing to broker a meeting between state party leadership and the Sanders supporters.
The new chair of the party had a hard time getting control of the crowd in Philadelphia as the convention began, booing at the mention of Hillary Clinton.
Many Sanders supporters are convinced the nomination was stolen from him. “I wish he’d say ‘I’m with her'”.
Ahead of her speech, she secured endorsement of retired Gen. John Allen, former deputy commander of U. S. Central Command and a former commander of the International Security Assistance Force, overseeing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan.
It’s expected Clinton will get enough delegates to officially be the nominee.
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United States officials suspect the email dump is the work of Russian hackers who were discovered in DNC servers earlier this year, and experts believe the coordinated release of the documents on the eve of the convention are an effort by Moscow to meddle in the U.S. presidential election. Protesters held Bernie Sanders signs and other signs that said “Emails”. “I think we’ve all gotten the message that what was done was wrong and it can’t be undone, but they’ve done their best to take care of it”.
