At a news conference Sunday, Sanders delegate Norman Solomon, 65, of Point Reyes Station, California, said many of Sanders’ liberal supporters were disappointed in Clinton’s vice presidential pick of Virginia Sen.
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But “I’ll live with whatever for the next four years. even if it’s Trump”, she said. The Florida congresswoman said that she would step down after the convention.
Her abrupt ouster triggers a new race for leadership of the party that is likely to play out on the sidelines of the convention. She has been a loyal Democrat after registering to vote the day after she became a citizen in 1993.
“If we had not had superdelegates and if primaries were open, Bernie would already be our nominee”, said Amy Buchanan, a Sanders delegate from Omaha. Her departure comes after almost 20,000 emails released by WikiLeaks Friday revealed that she and party staffers appeared to dismiss Sanders as a presidential candidate.
Clinton officials have said the effort was an attempt to incite Sanders supporters and help elect Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “It’s shameful that the Clinton campaign – and, it should be said, the Obama White House – served as longtime loyal enablers for such a flagrant abuser of democratic principles”.
Former Congressman Jason Altmire is attending the convention this week.
“We’ve got to get money out of this corrupt political system”, said Dave Simcox, who’s retired. The Democratic National Committee hasn’t yet announced the number for 2016, although LGBT caucus chair Earl Fowlkes Jr. set a goal for an even bigger number.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party”. “And she still wants to speak!” “It’s an us versus them world right now and we just can’t afford it”. “I don’t think he got a fair shake”.
DONALD Trump has a new hobby. That’s also when Sanders will give his speech – a closely watched moment for signs of whether his loyal supporters will line up behind Clinton, as he’s asked them to do.
At least two of the messages showed senior committee members were keen to undermine the Sanders campaign by seeking to raise questions about Sanders’s faith and heritage.
Among other things, the Sanders campaign took issue with the DNC’s scheduling of the Clinton-Sanders debates, saying the committee was purposely choosing times where viewership would be lower.
They also reveal the prized perks given to the party’s top donors. But Democrat’s hopes were dashed Sunday when DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned under pressure over hacked emails.
“I’m not shocked but I’m disappointed”, Sanders said of the emails on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday.
Ross says his department has taken additional safety measures in light of violent events around the world, but overall plans haven’t changed.
Erupting on the eve of the convention, it highlighted divisions with the party at the moment Clinton was aiming to shore up unity in front of a national audience. One group that claims to represent many Sanders delegates is planning protests, as well as an attempt to stop the nomination of the vice presidential candidate that Clinton chose: Tim Kaine.
“Would I have preferred to see someone like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton?”.
In his convention address, Sanders will also attack the real estate magnate’s programme, especially the portions of it referring to financing his campaign and to the environment, two of the issues the senator focused on during the primaries while mounting a lengthy challenge to Clinton’s frontrunner status.
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The party is counting on those similarities as it convenes its convention today.
