“[Hillary Clinton’s] campaign and her message this week is that we’re stronger together, we can solve our problems, we can begin to project a better country with a better future for everybody and tonight we begin that conversation”.
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“It’s been a wonderful thing for the party and I hope it continues to build”, Wilson said.
Clinton has had a long-standing relationship with the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
“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.
Many said it was essentially an attempt to repeat the success Hillary had with her own response to Trump earlier this year when she had told the Republican “Delete your account”.
Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who has always been under fire for the appearance of partiality toward Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries, announced her resignation in a statement Sunday afternoon.
The embattled politician is slated to gavel in the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, even though her role in the event has been dramatically reduced after the email scandal.
Wasserman Schultz’s resignation capped several hours of fast-moving developments as thousands of Democrats streamed into Philadelphia. At a news conference Sunday, Sanders delegate Norman Solomon, 65, of Point Reyes Station, California, said many of Sanders’ liberal supporters were disappointed in Clinton’s vice presidential pick of Virginia Sen.
The decision comes out of negotiations among Democratic Party officials, in consultation with the campaign staffs of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Schultz stepped down from her chairmanship on Sunday, after leaked emails from her and committee leaders appeared to show that the party leadership was concentrating its efforts to help Hillary Clinton secure the Democratic presidential nomination over Vermont Sen.
“Going forward, the best way for me to accomplish [the goals of the Democratic party] is to step down as Party Chair at the end of this convention”, Wasserman Schultz said.
Sanders is scheduled to speak on Clinton’s behalf at the convention on Monday night.
Clinton’s campaign has taken on Wasserman Schultz as a top surrogate.
Wasserman Schultz acknowledged the protesters in her speech.
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Ms Clinton is relying on Mr Sanders bringing his energy to the campaign and the countless numbers of young people and progressives who came out to support him during the primary contest, vote for the former Secretary of State.
