By 2011, President Barack Obama recommended she take control of the DNC, even though she had backed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary.
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The eruption came during a speech in which the Vermont senator was cheered for almost every point he made – including his call to defeat GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“We live in odd times and the only thing we can be sure of is that the unpredictable will happen”, Ceasar said. “Trump has made bigotry and hatred the cornerstone of his campaign”.
Monday’s meeting followed angry protests by Sanders supporters who already have hit Philadelphia’s streets to oppose Clinton’s nomination.
“To not be fair during this entire process, it’s kind of shameful”, delegate Sanjay Patel, a Sanders supporter from Brevard County said before she spoke at Florida delegation breakfast. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate.
“We feel alienated by the Clinton campaign”, he said. “They’ve made zero effort to reach out to us”.
I just wish she would have gone a little further and resigned immediately instead of waiting until the end of the convention.
The New York Times reported Monday that discussion over the Russian government and intelligence agencies’ involvement in the email leak has intensified as the convention gets underway.
After resigning as chair of the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the convention, Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Monday that she would no longer be appearing on stage to open the first night of the event.
Democrats had hoped to project an image of unity at the convention, but the emails make that more hard.
Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame for the email hack away from DNC officials and onto “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have breached DNC computers “for the goal of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee. Debbie Wasserman Schultz heckled out of her speaking role Monday at the Democratic National Convention; it’s also providing fodder for her congressional primary opponent. We have staff that know how to run campaigns.
Emails related to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s trip to Alaska were part of the release.
“I sat in that chair in 2004 trying to navigate all the different candidates we had”, he said. “That’s where I think the focus has got to be”.
Still, there’s no telling how the email leak will hurt her re-election campaign, said Florida delegate Mitch Ceasar, who has known her for 24 years in Broward County politics. “My second message is that we continue the political revolution”.
Sanders endorsed Clinton two weeks ago after pressing for the party platform to include a $15-an-hour minimum wage, debt-free college and an expansion of access to health care.
Never one to miss an opportunity to poke at his rivals, Trump appeared to relish the Democratic chaos Sunday, writing on Twitter: “The Dems Convention is cracking up”.
“Will I be very active in this campaign?”
“It’s a Democratic district, and typically our resources go – when you talk about financial resources and TV buys – those go to the most competitive races in America, That’s the priority that we have as a committee”, Luján, who represents a district in New Mexico told reporters, according to The Hill.
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But Sanders had his own troubles when he tried to rally his own supporters toward party unity. Sanders has called for abolishing superdelegates, who he believes gave Clinton an unfair advantage with early support.
