Democratic officials came to the decision on Saturday night, according to CNN. “Bernie Sanders never had a chance, and frankly I think you’re going to see some of that resentment boiling over this week in Philadelphia”.
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Democratic leaders are scrambling to keep the party united, but two officials familiar with the discussions said Wasserman Schultz was digging in and not eager to vacate her post until after the November elections.
The Clinton team worked to portray their party’s convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
Bernie Sanders supporters expect about 3,000 protesters will join them in a march from City Hall to a park near the convention site in the afternoon.
While Wasserman-Schultz has not resigned, she has indeed been stripped of her speaking slot at the convention next week, and will not preside over the convention as party chairs typically do, amid concerns that her very presence is now too inflammatory to give her a prominent role.
One close Clinton ally said the hope is that Wasserman Schultz would get the message and leave her position before the convention kicks off Monday. Some emails also show DNC and White House officials mulling whether to invite guests with controversial backgrounds to Democratic party events.
“I am not an atheist”, he said.
Weaver said Schultz, accused throughout the campaign of betraying a neutral role by operating on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign, deserves specific scrutiny – especially as the contents of the leaked emails “reinforce” that the party had put “its fingers on the scale” during the hard fought primary process.
“I’m not shocked, but I’m disappointed” by the exchanges in the emails, Sanders told ABC’s “This Week”. Several of the emails released indicate that the officials, including Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, grew increasingly agitated with Sanders and his campaign as the primary season advanced.
Surely, a party chair should be quietly working in the background instead of regularly making the news for her blatant bias and mismanagement of the party? Hillary Clinton is the presumptive nominee, along with her running mate Sen. Our campaign was about revitalizing American democracy.
“So my focus right now is defeating Trump, electing Clinton, electing progressive candidates around this country, and focusing on the issues that matter the most to working families”, he said.
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Asked about suggestions the NY businessman colluded with Putin in the hack, Trump’s campaign manager called such allegations “absurd” and said there was “no basis” for them.
