Work continues inside the convention hall before the Democratic National Convention, Saturday, July 23, 2016, in Philadelphia.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the Democratic National Committee has been dropped from the party’s lineup of convention speakers following WikiLeaks’ release of explosive DNC emails showing members of the organization actively working against the Bernie Sanders campaign.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary’s orchestrated collusion cheated thousands of honest Americans, who have invested enormous amounts of money and personal time for real change”, said one of the marchers, Dan Haggerty, 54, an electrician from California.
Sanders, who has endorsed Clinton and will speak on her behalf to the convention on Monday, said he would have preferred she pick U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA, a favourite of the party’s liberal wing, as her No. 2.
It also comes after days of Democratic crowing over GOP missteps and divisions at the Republican convention in Cleveland last week.
“I want to thank my longtime friend Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her leadership of the Democratic National Committee over the past five years….” As the mother of my three unbelievable children and the Representative of Florida’s 23rd congressional district, I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America’s future. They begin on Sunday, with pro-Sanders rallies scheduled in FDR Park and Thomas Paine Plaza.
Sources told CNN then that they believed Schultz would be “gone by the end of the day”. “It’s just more of the same”, she said. She said it’s past time for the United States to follow suit and elect Clinton. “I apologize to those I offended”. Sanders’ delegates helped to push the platform leftward in exchange for him to drop his presidential bid and embrace Clinton. His campaign is urging its 1,900 delegates first to attend a private meeting with him Monday, before the start of the convention. It was also said that this situation seemed more like a political calculation than anything else. “He can still give a strong endorsement of Hillary Clinton, but he can’t give a strong endorsement of the process”.
It was unclear whether Wasserman Schultz would have a speaking role at the convention.
Obama wasn’t the only high-ranking Democrat to respond to the soon-to-be former chairwoman’s decision to leave the party leadership.
Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame away from DNC officials to “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have hacked into DNC computers “for the objective of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee. Manafort brushed that off, saying Democrats were “pretty desperate pretty quickly”.
The DNC chairwoman, long seen by Bernie supporters as being in the tank for Hillary, announced she’ll step down after the Philly convention.
But others echoed Mrs Clinton’s message as she seeks to become the first female commander in chief, eight years after Mr Obama made history as the nation’s first black president.
She said she will still open and close the convention.
While Sanders identifies as Jewish, he is not overtly religious.
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“It might may [sic] no difference, but for KY and WA can we get someone to ask his belief”, Brad Marshall, CFO of DNC, wrote in an email on May 5, 2016. “Does he believe in God”.
