A separate protest, this one against police brutality and racial injustice, took shape in north Philadelphia near the Temple University campus, where about 500 people began marching down Broad Street toward City Hall. Together they planned to march the 4 miles down Broad Street to the convention site.
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Former Ohio state senator Nina Turner has heard about the movement among some Bernie Sanders supporters to nominate her for vice president.
“Our job in a hard moment is to bring people together, not divide us up”, said Sanders. Vermont’s delegates had an emotional evening as their home-state champion urged unity behind Hillary Clinton.
“He persuaded no one to vote for Hillary”, said Greg Gregg, a retired 69-year-old nurse from Salem, Oregon. Tim Kaine of Virginia for vice president … what the Aurora man sees as a slap to Bernie supporters hoping she’d pick a more liberal candidate “instead of going after the disenfranchised Republicans”.
Sanders would not personally announce Clinton’s nomination later Tuesday, NBC News reported, citing sources close to the Vermont senator. There are about 5,000 delegates attending, selected at state and congressional district conventions, and representing each USA state and territory.
“But our second task, in my view, is to continue the political revolution whose goal is nothing less than transforming this country”.
Only time will tell if Bernie Sanders will be able to convince his supporters to rally behind Clinton and the Democratic Party in time to keep Trump out of the White House. Lingering resentment over a tough campaign emerged again over the weekend following the revelation through a WikiLeaks dump that Democratic National Committee staffers had derided Sanders in internal emails.
“Because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all of our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”, said the wife of America’s first black president, her voice cracking with emotion. She said it was “troubling” that other Sanders supporters booed speakers at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
And he accused Warren of misrepresenting him and selling out to Hillary.
Back then, the roll call was stopped when it came to NY, and Clinton, after her long and divisive primary against Obama, called for a vote for Obama by acclamation. The roll call vote happens here on the floor Tuesday.
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Only First Lady Michele Obama managed to escape Trump’s withering criticism.
