(REUTERS/Jim Young)Supporters of former Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders cheer at the end of his speech during the first session at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 25, 2016. Instead, the political novice who wants to unseat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is reaping big financial rewards from days of nonstop publicity about her resignation from the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee after a hack of embarrassing party emails. According to the New York Times, Wasserman-Schultz has offered her resignation. The hacked DNC emails fed the suspicion of Sanders’ supporters and sapped Clinton’s campaign of some of its energy following a well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate, Virginia Sen. He says Trump has more support than many Democrats realize, especially in his home of Long Island.
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Wasserman Schultz’s message was supposed to be about party unity. “It just isn’t the time for that”. Nancy Pelosi of California, the first female speaker in House history, and Rahm Emanuel of IL.
Lujan said he expected Wasserman Schultz to not take the challenge lightly.
Numerous other examples of the cozy relationship between reporters and the DNC – along with examples of media bias – can be found at newsbusters.org. Expect the promised additional emails to add more to the public’s dislike of journalists. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009.
In the chart below, the blue line represents the Democratic convention and the red line represents the Republican convention.
Third, they courted wealthy donors by promising access to President Barack Obama, pointing out that big donors often demand such special favors.
The organized Jewish community sometimes appreciated her attentions and sometimes was wary of them.
But for the leaders of either faction, the stakes are simply much too high to allow infighting to sabotage them. Wasserman Schultz kept hidden her battle with breast cancer, but starting in 2009, spoke about it with eloquence and force. She’s set to step down from the party job after the convention. At a rally Sunday for an assortment of environmental causes like opposition to oil pipelines, fracking, and other issues like genetically modified food and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, she said she’s done.
It comes as many of his supporters contend the Democratic National Committee failed to be neutral during the primaries.
Ted Cruz said “vote your conscience”.
“The choice is not even close”, he said.
Some Democrats were quick to change the subject, suggesting that the leak may have been the work of Russian hackers, possibly connected to the Kremlin, who hope to elect Trump.
Wasserman Schultz is down but not yet out of the ’16 campaign. “There is only one person I trust with that responsibility, only one person I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is Hillary Clinton”. Mrs. Obama’s address all but wiped away earlier tumult in the convention hall that had exposed lingering tensions between Clinton and Sanders supporters. But Duhl said she can’t support Clinton’s policy flip-flops and behaviour over the years, or what she views as corruption within the Democratic party. She faces a primary challenge in August from Tim Canova, a progressive Democrat backed by Vermont Sen.
“First thing’s first”, he told JTA. If she then goes on to win the election, it will be time to manage the Russians.
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And don’t count out the return of Wasserman Schultz to a leadership role, Klein said.
