Yenerall said he already had a dim view of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, even before she resigned last weekend amid a fury over leaked emails.
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“The new joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should have never been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”, Trump wrote as part of a series of Tweets. “And you know, sometimes, you just have to take one for the team”.
When a few people chuckled, she said: “It isn’t the least bit amusing”. She has been a controversial figure throughout the primary campaign, as Sanders supporters complained the national party was partial toward Clinton.
Sanders was closing the night, speaking just after Massachusetts. Sen.
“I think it went much further than Debbie Wasserman Schultz”. Elizabeth Warren on Trump with more cries of disappointment. CBS News analyst Bob Schieffer suggested that what Trump said was so harmful that it “may well be the turning point in the election”.
Fox News did the same with Newt Gingrich earlier this month amid rumors that he was on the shortlist to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week is fertile fundraising ground for one Florida congressional candidate, but not in the traditional sense of high-priced donor dinners or lobbyist happy hours.
The Democratic National Convention underway after a start plagued by scandal. But many will be focused on the speech Monday night by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill attempted to reassure Clinton supporters by stating its tech advisers “have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised”.
An array of office holders and celebrities hammered home the call for unity, with singer Paul Simon singing his “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as delegates linked arms and swayed to the music.
“That’s so disgusting”, she told The Young Turks.
The conventions have boosted anticipation for the first presidential debate between Clinton and Donald Trump, which, given the candidates’ vocal admonishment of each other, should be a heated affair. Sanders’ loyalists heckled her at a Florida delegation breakfast and many expressed dismay that Clinton had given the Florida congresswoman the position of honorary chair of the campaign’s “50-state program”. “Crazy Bernie’s going insane right now”, he said.
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On Sunday, throngs of people marched along a main thoroughfare of the city to show their support for Sanders and their disdain for Hillary Clinton. “Of course I’m being sarcastic”, Trump said in an interview with Fox N’ Friends.
