The outcry came just one day after Wasserman Schultz said she would step down from her chairmanship at the end of the convention after a massive email leak showed DNC officials giving preference to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the prolonged primary contest against Sanders.
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“While she deserves thanks for her years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people”, Sanders said in a statement.
“My campaign election lawyers are investigating these circumstances and preparing a complaint against Wasserman Schultz with the Federal Election Commission”, Canova said.
The emails show party leaders were biased against Bernie Sanders, even when it became clear Hillary Clinton would win the party’s nomination, an honor she will officially accept Thursday night in Philadelphia.
“To not be fair during this entire process, it’s kind of shameful”, delegate Sanjay Patel, a Sanders supporter from Brevard County said before she spoke at Florida delegation breakfast. She did not appear at the convention podium and later watched the proceedings from a private suite. “We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that’s not the Florida that we know”, Wasserman Schultz shouted over the crowd.
And while he was speaking, Wasserman Schultz announced she would not gavel in the convention, an embarrassing acknowledgment that her presence onstage would only showcase deep party divisions. Her leadership of the DNC has meant that we had someone who brought Democrats together not just for my re-election campaign, but for accomplishing the shared goals we have had for our country.
Earlier, at a raucous meeting with his delegates, Sanders implored them to get behind Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. “She’s going to do that”.
The Clinton camp questioned whether Russians may have had a hand in the hack attack on the party’s emails in an effort to help Trump, who has exchanged words of praise with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump gloated at the Democrats’ opening day disorder.
The Republican gathering was overshadowed by accusations of plagiarism in a convention speech by Trump’s wife, Melania, and by former presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s angry refusal to endorse Trump. Schultz was the co-chair of her 2008 bid for president. The survey was conducted July 22-24 and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. Sanders has endorsed Canova in that race. Tim Kaine, and defeat Trump.
The protesters would not stand down and caused a commotion throughout the entire speech.
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Sanders was among those due to speak on the first evening of the convention.
