Still reeling from the revelations of an email leak, supporters of Sen.
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The Democratic National Committee is offering its “deep and honest apology” to Bernie Sanders, his supporters and the entire party for what it calls “the inexcusable remarks made over email”.
“Bernie! Bernie!” was the chant heard throughout the venue.
It was no surprise, then, that the night belonged to Sanders, who came onstage to rapturous applause.
Jason Miller, Trump campaign senior communications adviser, told Bloomberg Politics that “the only ones surprised by the Trump Bump are those in the media and Hillary Clinton donors who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars attacking Mr. Trump with no measurable improvement for their side”. He detailed point by point aspects of progressive policies in which he and Clinton agreed.
In the interview, Trump also addressed the NBA’s decision to move its All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of the state’s LGBT law, House Bill 2.
Clinton is within days of her long-held ambition to become the party’s official presidential nominee.
“I think every delegate should follow Senator Sanders’ request”, Adams said. Boyz II Men sang “Motownphilly”, and both Sanders and Clinton supporters boogied to the sweet sounds of 90s-era doo-wop-inflected R&B. But after a night of division, the cheers won out.
To his credit, Sanders has taken the high road since the disclosures.
“Donald Trump has no real plans for jobs, for college kids, for seniors”, she said.
And then she declared that she was “with her”. “On the other side is one of the smartest, toughest, most tenacious people on this planet”. “Only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States”.
I’m a Hillary Clinton delegate, proud to be here tonight. President Barack Obama will speak on Wednesday night. Sanders supporters booed and began chanting “Bernie!”
First lady Michelle Obama stepped into the presidential election Monday with a forceful, impassioned defense of Hillary Clinton, casting her as the only candidate who can be trusted as a role model for the nation’s children. “She lied on the emails (and) she got away with it …We need change”.
“That is the story of this country”. And I watch my daughters, two handsome intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.
“Because of Hillary Clinton my daughters now take for granted that a woman can be President of the United States”, Obama said. Al Franken of Minnesota in an attempt to unify the crowd.
Although Booker-Maxwell is a Sanders delegate, she’s supporting Clinton in the general election.
But during the rally, Trump called Sanders and his supporters “defeated” and said Sanders shouldn’t have given up.
“She’s like the only person ever to be overqualified for being president”, Silverman said. She is, for them, too centrist, too calculating, too compromised.
Silverman finished and stood next to a stunned Franken. She said her family is still in the US because of people like Sen. The mood changed as if a switch had been flipped as Simon sang “Bridge Over Troubled Water” to a thrilled crowd. “Bigger than companies. Bigger than anything”, Trump said.
“In times of crises, we don’t abandon our values. We double down on them”, he said. But that was not to last. He implored them to vote for Clinton, generating a chorus of boos. They want Bernie to know they love him and that’s great.
Diehard supporters of Sanders booed when a pastor leading the invocation prayer mentioned Clinton’s name, setting the stage for each successive mention to spark a raucous chorus of outbursts.
The Vermont senator says it is of the “utmost importance” that this be explained to the state delegations.
The Ohio congresswoman who’s the chair of the Democratic National Convention is getting an earful from a rowdy group of delegates in the convention’s opening moments. “He’s moderate. He has everything you would want in a very substantial highly placed public servant”.
Protesters told me the hacked emails of the Democratic National Committee and its now ousted chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, showing bias against the Sanders primary campaign, felt like a fresh poke in the eye.
That’s the case for Jessa Lewis, the Sanders delegate from Seattle. Even when your team doesn’t make the World Series, you still root for the division, he said.
“It just has to be us continuing to say forward together, forward together”.
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Wasserman Schultz had announced earlier in the day that she would not gavel open the convention. “Individual staffers have also rightfully apologized for their comments, and the DNC is taking appropriate action to ensure it never happens again”.
