“But it’s an understandable distraction”, said Miner, who said she was disturbed by reports that DNC staffers tried to make an issue of Sander’s religion was a wedge issue. “It’s. even more relevant today than in some ways it was in 2004”, one official told reporters, noting the “vitriol” of the 2016 campaign.
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The Clinton camp was hoping that fiery, progressive speeches Monday night from Massachusetts Sen.
Wasserman Schultz was forced over the weekend to resign her party leadership post, after leaked emails posted to the website WikiLeaks proved what everyone, but particularly Bernie Sanders and his supporters, suspected all along – that the party apparatus favored Hillary Clinton’s nomination and worked feverishly to secure it.
The evening sounded at times more like a traditional Republican convention than a Democratic one.
Florida delegate John Archer, wearing a Canova T-Shirt covered in Sanders buttons, said he’s proud of the way the challenger is funding his campaign.
“We never spend money on the safe seats”, Ward said. We’re not going away. “We’re not going to get steamrolled”.
Ellison and others said they’d be willing to broker a meeting between state party leadership and the Sanders supporters.
“I’m with Bernie. I’m following his lead”.
OR state Rep. Shemia Fagan, a pledged Clinton delegate, said Wasserman Schultz’s resignation should help bring Sanders’ supporters back into the party’s fold. 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.
Neville Blakemore, a superdelegate from Kentucky who is backing Clinton, said it was appropriate for Wasserman Schultz, a US representative from South Florida, to resign Sunday as chair of the party.
After resigning under pressure as Democratic National Committee chairwoman and being booed and jeered by protesters at a delegate breakfast from her home state of Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz conceded Thursday that it’s been “a hard week”.
“That was a slap in the face”, said Emily Wells, 34, a delegate from Arlington, Texas.
Humphrey said people deserve an answer about why Wasserman Schultz was brought on to the Clinton campaign.
“I’m really annoyed”, said MI delegate Bruce Fealk.
Sanders supporters broke into chants of “Bernie, Bernie”, but Silverman quickly shot back.
When Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke Monday morning to the Florida delegation as the national Democratic convention got underway, some delegates cheered.
From the hacked emails, which ranged from only January 2015 to May, we know the party was attempting to spread stories questioning Sanders’ religious beliefs and to otherwise discredit his campaign.
Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver said he was hopeful that “everybody acts respectfully”.
Despite Sanders’ vigorous endorsement of Clinton over Trump, rumblings of dissent were present.
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“The ideal is the enemy of the good”, he said.
