“I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America’s future”, Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. “I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the country to ensure her victory”.
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The Democratic contender said her party’s convention “will offer a very different vision for our country” than Trump did at last week’s Republican national convention. But she said Democrats are focused on getting Clinton and Kaine elected.
Donna Brazile already serves as vice chair of the DNC, and will take over on an interim basis.
Commissioner Richard Ross says “you have to be out there” to show officers, protesters and the public you’re with them.
He said Sanders supporters and others had votes suppressed in presidential primaries. “I would ask her to step aside, because she’s a distraction on a week that is Hillary Clinton’s week”. But the hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, further fired up Sanders supporters, who long accused the party of favoring Clinton despite officially being neutral. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The emails were reportedly hacked by someone going under the name of “Guccifer 2.0”, though security officials are concerned that the emails were hacked by Russian intelligence services.
She saw Wasserman Schultz’s ousting as a move “probably to appease” Sanders’ supporters.
He said he’s not supporting Clinton and isn’t sure whether he will in November.
Already, Wasserman Schultz was expected not to preside over the convention as its permanent chair, as had been originally planned. But former congressman Barney Frank, a co-chairman of the convention’s rules committee, denied that the appointment of Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (Ohio) on Saturday as permanent chair was related to the email controversy. And no one works harder for her constituents in Congress than Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “The national chair is never the permanent chair of the convention”.
Democratic Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is stepping down in the wake of a shocking email leak that revealed the party’s favoritism of Hillary Clinton. Frank noted that if she did not speak, it would be “unusual”.
Republican nominee Donald Trump was quick to weigh in on the situation with a series of Tweets.
It wasn’t known at press time whether Sanders forces, who are still sore about their candidate’s defeat, would be comfortable with a DNC head so close to Clinton. Her resignation is seemingly the result of a scandal involving a leaked email thread that exposed her and the party of seemingly sabotaging Bernie Sanders’ campaign in order for Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic party nominee. Those plans will go ahead despite a Saturday night compromise between Clinton and Sanders that calls for the creation of a “unity commission” to review and potentially restructure the party’s nominating and delegate selection process. He also suggested that Clinton’s choice of running mate, Virginia Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals. 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.
Trump and Clinton both are viewed unfavorably by more than half the American electorate, polls show, with Trump more so than her. She holds a slight edge in national political surveys over Trump three and a half months before the election. He is more conservative than I am. “If not, their BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS was a total waste of time”.
Monday’s convention program is expected to open with some of the party’s biggest political stars, and it will highlight some of the party’s most progressive voices. Other high-profile speakers include first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump has said Clinton’s record as the top US diplomat from 2009 to 2013 “has been a disaster”. Solomon said he believes a “vast majority” of Sanders delegates support these kinds of protests to express their dismay.
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“I think, the allegations, the emails, the insensitivity, the stupidity needs to be addressed, and we are going the address it”, Brazile said on “This Week”.
