A spokesman for the Alaska Democratic party says the party did not have any plants among Bernie Sanders’ supporters ahead of an event earlier this year with Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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Nathan Gonzales, who analyzes House races for the non-partisan Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report, said Tuesday that Wasserman Schultz’s recent travails “raise the natural question” about whether she could lose her primary- or general-election race.
Wasserman Schultz was booed by diehard Bernie Supports supporters at a Monday morning breakfast.
Johnson had long said he was skipping the Republican convention, but he reversed course last week and ended up making a prime-time speech. “We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that’s not the Florida that we know”, Wasserman Schultz shouted over the crowd.
Kruel told the Washington Examiner that knowing what she knows now, she wonders if a man in the background of the picture of her and Waserman Schultz wasn’t a security person.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaks before a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee.
At a meeting of the DNC credentials committee Sunday, comments praising Wasserman Schultz were met with laughter by some Sanders supporters.
Brad Marshall, the DNC’s chief financial officer, in one email to communications director Luis Miranda and deputy community director Mark Paustenbach suggested getting someone to press Sanders on his beliefs during the campaign.
The publication of the emails comes just a weekend before the start of the Democratic convention, where a major objective will be to unify the Democratic Party by winning over Sanders’ voters.
First lady Michelle Obama stepped into the presidential election Monday with a forceful, impassioned defense of Hillary Clinton, casting her as the only candidate who can be trusted as a role model for the nation’s children.
Drawing loud cheers throughout, Sanders offered a detailed comparison of Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on an array of policy issues, portraying the election as a simple choice. Sanders “stupid” for endorsing Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent.
On Friday, Wikileaks released a trove of emails from top DNC staffers, some of which backed up Sanders’ claims that the party had not been supportive of him.
But Sanders also was heckled and booed when he said voting for Clinton is key to defeating Donald Trump. The Clinton campaign opened up speaking spots for his supporters.
Although superdelegates didn’t deliver Clinton her victory – she also won the popular vote and a greater number of pledged delegates – Sanders has argued that they play an undemocratic role in the nominating process.
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Still, Sanders delegate Courtney Rowe, 34, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said “we are not here to disrupt for the objective of disruption”. Brazile forwarded the reporter’s email to other DNC officials, saying she would decline the interview because of her frustrations with Sanders: “I have no intentions of touching this. Why?”
