Both groups had been chanting past each other all night. Committee Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted after the email revelations, but Clinton promptly named her an “honorary chair” of her campaign. His supporters were largely unappeased.
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The protests prompted Sanders to send an e-mail to his delegates, pleading for unity and warning that the tumult would only play into Donald Trump’s hands. The New York businessman pulled ahead in at least one opinion poll on Monday, after lagging Clinton in most national surveys for months. I’ll be curious to see if and how she handles the subject on Thursday night.
“I thought he was a great president”, said Rick Mann, a member of the machinists union attending this year’s Democratic convention. Do I vote third party?
While it is hard to find any Latino supporters of Sanders who say they would vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that doesn’t mean that they will automatically head to the polls for Clinton now that she is only a few days away from accepting her party’s nomination. Moran booed into her water bottle to help the sound echo louder in the arena.
Fans and fashionistas, meanwhile, waited patiently for the dress reveal of first lady Michelle Obama, who spoke late Monday night.
Democrats hope Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will get things back on track, leaving behind headlines of warring delegates, resignations and scheming party leaders.
Politicians who endorsed Bernie Sanders: Sen. It gets out of the way ahead of time. “The V.P. a joke!”
CBS 11 News Political Reporter Jack Fink was there and posted the early morning shouting match between Clinton and Sanders supporters on Twitter. “Sad to watch Bernie Sanders abandon his revolution”.
But other Sanders delegates who engaged in the booing saw nothing wrong with their conduct. How will the almost 1,900 Bernie Sanders delegates handle it? Knox added, “as far as coming together, I need to hear more than we just that need to come together”. Sanders made reinstating Glass-Stegall, a Depression-era banking law repealed under Bill Clinton’s administration, a central attack line of his campaign. But, again, to think that Hillary was unfairly handed the nomination by some omnipotent, distant power structure discounts her years of careful coalition building, within the party apparatus and with the voting public, which facilitated her present success. “So why should we?”
Bill Clinton will stand on stage tonight at the Democratic National Convention not only as a former president, but potentially as the future “first gentleman” of the United States.
“If we raise the minimum wage, if we guarantee health care for all people, you know what people in Kansas will start to say?”
“We absolutely do not want Donald Trump in the White House”, she said.
That made sense. Conventions are often aimed at appealing to people who “should” be with the party but haven’t got there yet.
But Sanders repeatedly voiced frustration with a DNC and party establishment that he felt was stacked against him, and the resentment from Sanders and his supporters threatened to disrupt the convention.
Delegates heard from vocal Sanders supporters, including Congresswoman Diane Russell of ME, who promoted a proposal to reform the DNC’s controversial superdelegate system, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, all of whom aligned themselves firmly behind Clinton. Al Franken, a former comedian himself.
What was expected to be a tightly orchestrated convention, run with all the professionalism and experience that were lacking at Trump’s often-chaotic affair in OH, instead showed its rough edges in the early going, starting with chants of “Bernie” during the opening invocation and boos at numerous mentions of Clinton’s name.
“You can’t roll over people and expect them to come up smiling”, said James Zogby, a Sanders supporter and president of the Arab American Institute. Some in the crowd shushed Sanders supporters when they began chanting during first lady Michelle Obama’s speech. “Hillary did not pack up and go home”. To go from passionately supporting one candidate whose values hew closely to your own, to feeling like you’re being compelled to support another candidate who was chosen for you and of whom you are deeply suspicious understandably breeds resentment.
The roll call, when each state announces its delegate totals from the primary season, will affirm a nomination Clinton locked up weeks ago.
“That’s all we really can do”, says Sarah Knowlton, a young Sanders delegate from IN who says that she draws the line at booing during speeches, but is OK with chanting. “The choice is not even close”, Sanders said.
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“He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage”, Marshall wrote in a May 5 email to three top DNC officials. “We don’t have to have our heart behind Hillary, but we do have to understand practical politics”.
