She also tried to quiet the crowd by reminding audience members that their state would host a debate in December.
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In response to the heckling, Wasserman-Schultz said, “Come on folks”.
“What’s more important, drawing a contrast with Republicans, or arguing about debates?” she asked.
When Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped up to speak, convention goers began chanting, “we want debates!” And the incident was the latest in series in which the committee has been called on to have more than six sanctioned debates. “When I jump up on a chair I often will mention that we should be having more debates rather than fewer”.
Outside the convention, in Manchester’s Veterans Park, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley told a small crowd of supporters that the DNC can’t let the recent Republican debates “go unanswered”, and blasted the debate schedule as a “one-woman edict”.
Nutter said that precedent was enough for him, as well – and that he had no problem with the DNC’s plan to bar candidates who participate in non-DNC-sponsored debates from joining the official ones.
Wasserman Schultz had to shout over the chants as she moved through her prepared remarks attacking Republicans.
The candidates lagging the furthest in the polls, who could benefit the most from the airtime a debate would provide, are making the loudest demands on the issue. The DNC chair from 2001 to 2005, McAuliffe was the first to have the party sponsor debates and impose sanctions on candidates who disagreed with the plan.
And Mary Ann Rogers, a Bernie Sanders backer from Manchester, said more debates would give voters more time to decide. “Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Member of Congress and a mother to young kids, is doing yeomen’s work running a party, serving as a national spokesperson and fundraiser, managing a party nomination, and preparing for a general election“. “I have made it clear that if they want to do more, I’m happy to do them”, Clinton said during an appearance on CNN this week. She’s laying the groundwork to ensure that the Democratic nominee who leaves Philadelphia next July becomes the 45th President of the United States, and I am her strategic partner in this most consequential of endeavors.
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“You got to keep going”, O’Malley replied.
