Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Democratic Party’s nomination for president of the United States Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead a major-party ticket and setting up a brutal, three-month battle against insurgent Republican billionaire Donald Trump.
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Later Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard placed Sanders name in nomination at the convention to wild applause, calling his campaign a “movement of love”.
After struggling to control his temper and his outbursts on the campaign trail in 2008, the former president has been a far more disciplined, supportive spouse on the campaign trail this time – traveling across the country to campaign for his wife and carefully avoiding GOP nominee Donald Trump’s provocations. He said he intends to cast his ballot in November for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, quoting the turn-of-the-last-century socialist labor leader Eugene Debs as saying, “I’d rather vote for what I want and lose than what I don’t want and win”.
Detractors view her as too cozy with the establishment and say she carries political baggage dating back to the start of her husband President Bill Clinton’s first White House term in the 1990s.
The mood, however, shifted slightly on Tuesday, as Sanders supporters often chanted his name but did not jeer when Mrs Clinton’s name was mentioned.
Trump was not on board, tweeting: “Bernie Sanders totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton”.
Delegates erupted in cheers throughout the roll call of states on the floor of the Democratic convention.
“Because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all of our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”, she said.
Sections of the convention hall were left conspicuously unpopulated on Tuesday night as delegates from strongly pro-Sanders delegations, including California, walked out after Sanders moved that Clinton be named the nominee.
Ohio’s delegation cast 98 of its votes for Mrs. Clinton and 62 for Senator Sanders while MI cast 81 for Mrs. Clinton and 66 for Mr. Sanders.
“I think he did an excellent job as always under hard circumstances”, said Nevada superdelegate Erin Bilbray, a Sanders supporter.
“A lot of us banded together and worked together to fundraise”, Perkins, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said Tuesday. And when you send people here that were elected to come and make a vote, and the first thing they do is go to their breakfast, and they hear “President Clinton” already, you know, they’re already feeling disenfranchised. Tim Kaine, Clinton’s new running mate.
Senator Bernie Sanders’ final moments as a presidential candidate passed as he rose to “suspend the procedural rules” during the count of delegate votes for the nomination at the Democratic National Convention.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion”, which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers it said are bent on helping Trump.
Clinton tweeted one word after clinching the nomination: “History”. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chair, to resign her post and pull out from speaking at the convention. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s most identifiable and divisive advocates, will appear at the Democratic convention and formally endorse Clinton.
“I cried! I never cry”, she said.
“Is there a second?” said Fudge, who was greeted with more cheers.
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The DNC issued a formal apology to Sanders on Monday for leaked emails that suggested the party’s leadership conspired against him during the primaries in favor of then-presumptive nominee Clinton.
