By the same time period in 2008, just 69 percent of Democrats who voted for Clinton in the primaries said they’d support then-Sen.
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“The reality is: Hillary Clinton will be the nominee”.
“I think that Kaine is a wonderful guy, but this was an opportunity to reach out to progressives, and the opportunity was missed”, said Rod Halvorson, a Sanders delegate from Minnesota. “That’s what bothers me the most: The lack of professionalism and decency from the DNC in those emails, in going after Bernie Sanders”.
There is little suspense but still some excitement going into the Democratic National Convention that starts Monday. But he’s not yet ready to throw his support to Clinton, not while there’s even an infinitesimal chance Sanders could still win the nomination.
Democrats and independent voters in the Philadelphia suburbs – a crucial area in a competitive state – are expressing mixed feelings about Clinton in the days leading up to next week’s Democratic convention in their hometown. A Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll published Saturday had the race dead even. Clinton announced Friday that Sen.
At least two New Mexico Democrats – Reps. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Luján – will have speaking roles at the convention in Philadelphia. Lujan Grisham told the Journal on Friday that her speech will focus on Clinton’s agenda for women. “We’re about to have our first female President”, says Sherrod.
“She’s been on Capitol Hill, she’s got relationships with governors and legislative bodies and experts in a variety of fields, and she’s got relationships with elected and appointed leaders overseas”, Lujan Grisham said.
The Intercept news website quoted Marshall as saying, “I do not recall this”.
But several Sanders delegates from Colorado said other issues were more pressing to them than simply lining up behind Clinton at the convention.
After winning a number of policy concessions in the Democrat platform (or election manifesto) Mr Sanders appeared onstage with Mrs Clinton go give her a wholehearted endorsement on July 12.
“I was on the other end of that”, she said.
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther agreed, saying that Clinton must personify “the very calming force” that she was in the U.S. Senate and as secretary of state.
Deflated Bernie Sanders supporters are crying foul after shocking internal emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee exposed hostility toward the Vermont U.S. senator’s presidential campaign and cast a dark cloud over the party’s national convention as fed up delegates make their way to Philadelphia.
One DNC email noted that former Massachusetts Democratic spokesman Kevin Franck was writing a column for The Boston Herald on Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns.
The party platform debate concluded recently with a draft document that included many of Sanders’ priorities, including proposals for a $15 federal minimum wage, abolition of the death penalty and steps to break up large Wall Street banks.
A text message Saturday to Sanders’ 1,900 delegates says they should “not worry about being in the convention hall for the opening gavel”. “I think her character is beyond reproach”.
“Our goal is to promote and advance Bernie’s political revolution at and after the convention”, she said.
Hillary Clinton must now make the case that experience in government at the highest levels is necessary when it comes to running the most powerful nation on earth.
But Chavez doesn’t anticipate a divisive atmosphere among New Mexico’s Democratic delegates in Philadelphia. While WikiLeaks did not reveal the source of the leak, the committee said last month that Russian hackers had penetrated its computer system.
“I hope that we have a united convention”, Precwinkle said. “So, job one is convincing the Bernie delegates that she is worthy of their support”.
“Democracy is messy”, Costilla said.
Ohio Democratic Chairman David Pepper says divisions between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders camps will certainly be evident at the convention, but “the mission will be unification”. In June, Trump raised $176,511 from 570 state donors, bringing his MI total for the year to $242,083 from 822 people, but he still hasn’t tapped into the significant base of big-money Republican donors in the state. Among the officials whose emails were made public were DNC spokesman Luis Miranda, national finance director Jordon Kaplan and finance chief Scott Comer, but other DNC and media figures and even some White House officials communicated with them between January 2015 and last May, Wikileaks said. But she predicted Democrats will have a harder time coalescing around their candidate.
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“I think the Democrats in Philadelphia are divided. They have a lot of issues”, Maestas said. He is the lone candidate in the Democratic primary for the seat now held by Sen.
