Bernie Sanders urged his supporters at a breakfast gathering of Democratic delegates from Wisconsin to help elect Hillary Clinton and do everything they can to stop Donald Trump, calling him the “worst, least prepared candidate for president in my lifetime”.
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Isabel Baker, an 88-year-old delegate from Oklahoma, was born in 1929, just nine years after women were given the right to vote.
“Madame chair, I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules”, he said. Sanders’ primary challenge has unleashed supporters’ vitriol toward the party establishment that Sanders himself has been unable to rein in.
Thousands of activists have taken to the streets in Philadelphia during the convention this week to voice support for Sanders and his progressive agenda.
Others Sanders supporters, meanwhile, announced Tuesday they were canning their effort to nominate an alternative to Tim Kaine. Sabrina Nixon, a Sanders delegate from Philadelphia, said she expects something of a repeat of Monday.
Clinton’s own path to this moment is decades in the making.
In her show-stealing address, Michelle Obama linked the coming landmark for women to her husband’s role as the first black USA president.
If Democrats go in order Tuesday, with no delegations taking passes, South Dakota was expected to get Clinton close, with Tennessee conceivably vaulting her over the top.
“I give you a leader, a great leader who can unite us as a nation and as a people, a leader who can break down barriers and build a better future for every American”.
Approached by reporters, Lytle said his beef with Clinton lies is rooted in what he sees a less than open nominating process.
“I am upset because despite her stated opposition, it was Clinton and DNC appointees on the platform committee that opposed including clear opposition to the TPP in the platform”, Williams wrote in an email to the Associated Press.
Shyia Nelson, an environmental activist from Vermont, spoke in favor of Sanders’ nomination. She described Sanders as “beautifully motivated”. “We were never hungry by any means”.
Clinton’s name was entered into nomination by Maryland Sen.
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“So it is with a full heart that I’m here today to nominate Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president”, Mikulski said.
