Why the uproar over the Democratic National Committee favoring presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Sen.
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Wasserman Schultz’s message was supposed to be about party unity.
Other Sanders delegates with previous political experience are also more ready to support Clinton than the ones new to the process.
“I believe the research that shows Russian state actors hacked into the DNC email servers and extracted the emails and other documents”, argued Leo Taddeo, chief security officer at Cryptzone, and former special agent in charge of the FBI’s NY cybercrime division. “Too bad for (Wasserman Schultz) that she goes to preserve some peace, but that’s politics”.
“I saw it this am”.
In response, DNC officials released a statement apologizing to Sanders and attempting to unify the party during this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
“I really feel that Bernie Sanders has gone the whole road that he can”. When Sanders took the stage as the night’s final speaker, he acknowledged that many of his supporters were disappointed.
The revelations created further division within the Democratic Party at the national convention as Sanders supporters protested what they say amounts to an unfair, rigged system, and some vowing not to stand behind Clinton.
Earlier in the day, Sanders was booed during an address to his delegates in which he endorsed Clinton for president.
The booing of party leaders started at the first delegation breakfasts and extended into primetime television coverage. “Immediately, right now, we have got to defeat Donald Trump”, Sanders said in a special speech to delegates Monday afternoon, “and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine”.
Ms. Wasserman Schultz announced that she would take no part in the convention.
Sanders’ bid pushed Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party’s platform to the left on some issues like setting the minimum wage at $15 per hour, free college education for most Americans and pursuing universal healthcare.
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But, he says, “the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 percent – a government based on the principles economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues”.
