“He knew we were for Hillary”. He said interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile’s efforts to manage the Democratic Party’s crisis could help the situation.
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A devoted follower of Sanders, Boulger’s anger at the system boiled over amid news of the WikiLeaks release of Democratic National Committee emails that appear to show the party working against her candidate.
Speaking Monday night at a rally in North Carolina during a rally that capped off his first day on the road since becoming his party’s nominee, Trump repeatedly pointed to the commotion in Philadelphia.
“By these measures, any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.” he said. “But I’m happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party”. On Sunday, Wasserman Schultz she said she would resign from her DNC position.
“Based on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”, Sanders, a US senator of Vermont, said in the final speech of the opening night of the convention at the Wells Fargo Center. Sanders supporters screamed on the sweltering streets of downtown Philadelphia and from the air-conditioned bleachers of the Wells Fargo.
“There are a lot of people in the Bernie crowd who feel they represent the people who voted them in as delegates, and they will stay loyal to Sanders”, Kingson said.
Martha Kuhl, a nurse from Oakland, California, and a Sanders delegate, was yelling in support of Bernie the whole night.
Throughout the first day of the DNC, Sanders supporters refused to sit quietly and accept the Clinton convention, booing mentions of the presumptive nominee. “Hillary Rotten Clinton, right?”
“Together, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution continues”, Sanders continued. She said she was not now planning on any action and wanted to hear from Sanders.
Seeking to avoid a nationally televised display of disunity, Sanders urged his supporters to back Clinton. Kaine said having a president who would be married to a former president is an “embarrassment of riches”.
Liberal heroine Elizabeth Warren slammed Trump as a man who skipped on his debts and cheated other people, while saying Clinton was one of the “smartest, toughest most tenacious people on this planet”. She highlighted that on Thursday, 13 million people are set to leave the Democratic Party in protest to Clinton’s nomination.
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Many of them were among the several hundred protesters who walked about four miles from downtown Philadelphia to the arena in time for the opening gaveling. “This election is not about and has never been about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders or any of the other candidates who sought the presidency”, he said.
