“I’m going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton and to keep focusing, keep focusing on the real issues facing the American people”, Sanders said on CNN. Superdelegates are free to choose any candidate.
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Solomon heads the The Bernie Delegates Network, an independent group of Sanders delegates which claims 1,250 in their ranks.
The Clinton team worked to portray their party’s convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
Indeed, Democrats were reeling over the weekend by news that DNC officials put their thumb on the scale in favor of Mrs. Clinton during the primaries.
As Chuck Todd noted Sunday on Meet the Press, some Sanders supporters were disappointed by the pick, questioning Kaine’s progressive bona fides.
It now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination. But he told the Deseret News earlier this month that he would be stunned if Clinton carried Utah.
Even Utah Democrats aren’t optimistic the state will swing their way in a presidential election for the first time since 1964. The national organization has endorsed Clinton.
Democrats and independent voters in the Philadelphia suburbs – a crucial area in a competitive state – expressed mixed feelings about Clinton in the days leading up to this week’s Democratic National Convention in their hometown.
“I think we need to continue to shore up our Democratic base and give people reason to be strong Democrats and continue to talk about those issues that are central to democratic ideals”, Scanlon said.
“I have to say, Senator Tim Kaine is everything that Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not”, Mrs Clinton said on Saturday, drawing a quick contrast with the Republican ticket as she introduced her own No. 2 to the nation.
“The combination of his tone, his demeanor, his life story -it just said a lot about her capacity to choose the right person and not listen to pressure from the outside”, he said. Clinton said to combat attacks inspired or directed by the Islamic State, the country needs better sharing of information among local, state, national and global law enforcement.
“I’m not excited”, said Matthew Mousley, 36, of Springfield, who nevertheless plans to support Clinton. “We can’t afford to let him do the same thing to our country”, 58-year-old Kaine told a cheering crowd in Miami, Florida in his maiden speech as Clinton’s running mate.
It would not surprise me at all to have a slew of new numbers released Monday morning for polls that went into the field on Friday (after Trump’s acceptance speech) and finished up Sunday night giving us a snapshot of his convention bounce, however short-lived as Clinton’s convention prepared to open on Monday afternoon.
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Kristine Chiodo sat next to Kaine and Holton during the Mass. She had met them before, when she taught the couple’s son trigonometry during his junior year at Maggie Walker Governor’s School, back when Kaine was governor. “I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they… are very regrettable”.
