Bernie Sanders called for the resignation on Sunday of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has been banished from the podium at the party’s convention in the wake of the leak of 20,000 DNC emails. He told NBC’s Meet the Press show Sunday that people coming from countries where terrorist attacks have occurred, including staunch US ally France, may need to be subjected to “extreme vetting” before being allowed to enter the United States.
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In one email, DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall suggested getting someone to ask Mr. Sanders on the campaign trail whether he was an atheist.
On Friday, the transparency advocacy group Wikileaks published thousands of internal DNC emails illegally obtained by the hacker Guccifer 2.0, a number of which showed party officials discussing ways to undercut Sanders’ campaign.
This is seen as a concession to Sanders, who has been furious at Wasserman Schultz for what he believed was favoritism to Clinton.
Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in New Hampshire on July 12, 2016, after she is endorsed by former rival Bernie Sanders.
The senator said he is still working to defeat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and get Clinton elected.
Sanders, in a CNN interview Sunday, called the comments in the emails “outrageous”, but said it was “not a shock to me”. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.
“Robby Mook says on CNN’s ‘State of the Union” that experts are telling the campaign “Russian state actors” broke into the DNC’s emails, and that other experts say these Russians are now selectively releasing the emails.
There are now 4,763 total delegates, and 712 of them are superdelegates.
It now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination.
The role of superdelegates could be significantly reduced in future Democratic presidential primaries under a compromise deal struck at the Democratic National Convention rules committee Saturday.
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More than 50 remain uncommitted.
