The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announced abruptly Sunday afternoon that she would step down at week’s end.
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Bitterness and frustration among the more progressive wing came after some 19,000 emails were published on the website Wikileaks that suggested the Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primary, when Sanders fell short against Hillary Clinton.
Amid furor over an email leak that revealed a bias against Bernie Sanders inside the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is out as chair of the convention. Sanders defeat Clinton in primaries and caucuses, including the Kansas caucus in March. Sanders says he favors a state-by-state roll call, but he hasn’t indicated exactly what he will do.
USA Today reports pro-Sanders supporters have been granted nine out of 28 permits allocated to demonstrators.
For years though, it seemed, Wasserman Schultz was unstoppable.
Parsons is scheduled to speak Tuesday night. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen.
Asked about Kaine on CNN’s “State of the Union”, he added: “Are his political views different than mine? Yeah, they are. He’s more conservative than I am”.
Donald Trump and his supporters told Ted Cruz and his supporters at their convention, “go away; you’re fired”.
Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, as the GOP convention stuck to a gloom-and-doom theme.
Democrats Jeffrey Kushner and Larry Kellar strongly disagree on who the next president should be.
Florida delegates are confident Democrats will unite behind Clinton this fall and the convention will aid the post-primary healing process. Schultz was the co-chair of her 2008 bid for president.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Bernie Sanders, says there is talk among Sanders’ delegates of walking out during Kaine’s acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest.
“To my mind, what is most important now is the defeating of the worst candidate for president that I have seen in my lifetime, Donald Trump, who is not qualified to be president by temperament, not qualified to be president by the ideas that he has brought forth”, Sanders said on ABC.
“They didn’t treat Bernie right”, Trump said Friday.
Dan O’Neal, 68, is a retired school teacher and delegate from Arizona, said Wasserman Schultz has to be censured.
You could say her protest plan is a real gas. This could make several points difference with my peeps. Then he sends a second email by way of explanation: Its these Jesus thing. Ms. Dacey writes back, in capital letters: AMEN.. Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s campaign chairman, has worked as a lobbyist for Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich for more than a decade.
“The emails have proven the system was rigged from the start”, Manafort told “Fox News Sunday”.
With just one weekend to go before Hillary Clinton is expected to accept her party’s nomination for president, WikiLeaks on Friday released nearly 20,000 emails sent and received by Democratic National Committee staff members from January 2015 to May 2016 – leaving journalists scouring for information potentially damaging to the party.
How the emails were stolen hasn’t been confirmed.
Cleveland’s police chief also stayed on the front lines during demonstrations at last week’s Republican National Convention, helping keep the peace and riding around with bike officers.
Mrs Clinton will formally accept the Democratic presidential nominee in her keynote address on Thursday night, making her the first female candidate to stand for a major political party in the history of the United States.
“Young people in the Democratic Party are very, very angry”, in delegate Jonathan Little said during debate on one of the amendments.
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Clinton arrives in Philadelphia with 2,814 delegates to Sanders’ 1,893, according to an Associated Press count. In interviews, a dozen Sanders delegates unanimously said they were not enthusiastic about Kaine; some admitted that they had never heard of him before. Convention speakers at the four-day event will emphasize Clinton’s lengthy track record of service, accomplishments and activism on behalf of the American people.
