Hillary Clinton has said a number of times publicly that Sen. Sanders has endorsed Clinton and has said he will do whatever is necessary to defeat GOP nominee Donald Trump.
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A theme this Sanders delegate from Birmingham, Michigan – says is priority No. 1. Of course, it might be more of a job change, since she’s already accepted an “honorary” position with the Hillary Clinton campaign. “They’ve made zero effort to reach out to us”.
However, with the controversy over leaked party emails that showed Democratic staffers favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primary campaign still simmering, Wasserman Schultz faced the prospect of a hostile reception from delegates on the floor Monday.
Democrats had hoped to project an image of unity at the convention, but the emails make that more hard.
Wasserman Schultz is such a fixture in Florida politics that Canova is the first primary opponent she’s faced since being elected to the U.S. House in 2004.
“While she deserves thanks for her years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people”, Sanders said.
“In some sense, it’s the division in the Republican Party, the nomination got so much attention, that it nearly overshadowed the important divisions that we saw in the Democratic primary campaign”, said John Dinan of Wake Forest University.
At a meeting of the DNC credentials committee Sunday, comments praising Wasserman Schultz were met with laughter by some Sanders supporters. I think she should resign, period and I think we need a new chair who is going to lead us in a very different direction.
For a time before the scandal, Bernie Sanders and Clinton appeared to be on their way to unifying the party.
“This campaign has been a fantastic beginning”, Sanders said.
The Clinton team worked to portray their party’s convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
One email from the DNC was trying to get the issue of religion addressed by reporters in an attempt to undermine Sanders. “The Florida that we know is going to make sure that we continue to create jobs, like the 14.8 million jobs that were created under Barack Obama’s leadership, the 20 million people who now have healthcare who didn’t have it before”. “A government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice”.
Asked if he will support Clinton in November, Willis said his goal right now is to persuade the Democratic Party to affirm that Sanders offered good ideas and to incorporate them as part of the party’s agenda.
“We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that that’s not the Florida that we know”, she said.
Bernie supporters did not seem to be soothed.
Today’s announcement by Wasserman Schultz comes after the committee announced that the Florida congresswoman will not be formally speaking at the convention.
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Antonio Silba, a Clinton delegate from Orlando, called the behavior of Sanders’ supporters shameful.
