Wasserman Schultz never tried to do that.
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Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would be resigning in the wake of an email scandal in which it appeared she and other party officials were trying to aid Hillary Clinton and hurt Sanders, but she planned to gavel the convention in and out.
The New York Democratic Party reserved one of the larger spaces for coffee for all of the delegates.
Referring to Wasserman Shultz, Hanna points out that she’s revealed to be a “fierce loyalist” for Clinton and was willing to “entertain all kinds of dirty tricks” against Sanders.
“As Party Chair, this week I will open and close the Convention and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans”, she originally added.
Sanders’ delegates chanted the Vermont senator’s name during the start of the convention and booed lustily at any mention of rival Hillary Clinton.
Earlier, at a raucous meeting with his delegates, Sanders implored them to get behind Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. That plan may have been a bid to save face for Wasserman Schultz but in truth it was an act of Trumpian arrogance – at a moment when she and the rest of the party leadership can least afford it.
Sanders, who battled Clinton in the Democratic primaries, said he’s known Clinton since she was first lady nearly a quarter-century ago. She was jeered yesterday by Sanders’ supporters as she spoke to a group of delegates from her home state of Florida, where she is a congresswoman, but did not talk about the emails. Those energetic cheers, however, quickly transformed into loud boos when the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist called on his supporters to elect Clinton and Kaine to the Oval Office.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a Hillary Clinton delegate, says she believes the controversy will in the end just be a passing “distraction”. Bernie Sanders jeering at several speakers. “She has her share of problems, but I don’t know if that’s going to hit her in her district”.
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The Florida representative said in her resignation announcement that she would stay on as chairwoman throughout the convention, delivering opening and closing remarks – a move that threatened to cause severe disruption to a convention meant to unify the party for the general election.
