When Sanders took the stage as the night’s final speaker, he acknowledged that many of his supporters were disappointed.
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Following Sunday’s news, however, Clinton responded with a statement thanking her “longtime friend” for her service to the party and, seemingly without irony, announced that Wasserman Schultz would now serve as her campaign’s honorary chair.
“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention”, Wasserman Schultz said.
Many of Sanders’ delegates, frustrated with the primary process and furious with outgoing party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were still weighing ways to disrupt the four-day event.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz heckled out of her speaking role Monday at the Democratic National Convention; it’s also providing fodder for her congressional primary opponent. “There’s simply no one better at taking the fight to the Republicans than Debbie”.
In a May 13 email Wasserman Schultz criticizes Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver, writing, “He is an A _ _”, tagging the message with her initials, “DWS”. Yet Wasserman Schultz recently proved a divisive leader, with the Sanders camp and its supporters concerned the DNC was angling for a Clinton nomination.
Wasserman Schultz’s emails only put the Democratic Party at risk, he said, but Clinton’s emails put all of America at risk.
WikiLeaks officials say the emails come from the accounts of “seven key figures in the DNC”, among them Communications Director Luis Miranda (10,770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3,797 emails) and Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer.
In one email out of the 20,000 leaked, the committee’s chief financial officer, Brad Marshall, appears to float an idea to question the Vermont senator’s Jewish faith.
As early as this morning, citing the leaked DNC emails, Sanders said it was past time for the chairperson to go.
Clinton has had a long-standing relationship with the DNC and Schultz. Her own supporters yelled back, standing on chairs and waving T-shirts bearing her name.
The first leg of the DNC chair’s farewell tour goes awry.
Martha Laning, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said Wasserman Schultz did the right thing in resigning to help the party move forward, according to a statement provided by state party spokesman Brandon Weathersby. She said on Sunday she would not speak at the convention as originally scheduled. There were also emails about when the Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton campaign’s proprietary voter information that was housed at the DNC.
“That’s news to me”, she said, adding “I have not talked to anybody about that, so it’s… not necessarily in my future”. Who should I connect them with? “I mean, that is just totally unacceptable behavior”.
With boos and chants of “Feel the Bern”, die-hard backers of Bernie Sanders signaled on Monday that they just aren’t ready to coalesce around the presidential bid of Hillary Clinton despite his pleas.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, meanwhile, took the opportunity to sow more discord among the Democrats, saying Sanders’ “political revolution” had ended up fruitless.
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“Make no mistake. We have made history”, Sanders told the crowd.
