Many New York leaders brushed aside the fighting between Sanders’ and Clinton’s supporters, saying the goal is to beat Donald Trump in November.
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Schultz had resigned on Sunday, but earlier today, after she was heckled trying to speak at a Florida delegation breakfast, she also gave up her right to gavel open the convention.
But the sun started to come out around 10 p.m., when Michelle Obama took the prime-time stage to almost deafening applause. “Don’t let anyone tell you that this country isn’t great”.
The outgoing First Lady reminisced about her two “bubbly little girls” Sasha and Malia as they entered the White House, and how they are leaving it as “poised young women”.
Sanders tried to urge his delegates to see the larger picture, defeating Trump, who he called “a bully and a demagogue”.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Comedian Sarah Silverman didn’t mince words in her message to die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters at the Democratic convention: “Can I just say to the Bernie or bust people, you’re being ridiculous”.
“In this election, there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton”, she said to standing ovations. And following the leaked DNC emails, she said “it just hurts to feel like we’ve been fighting against everything and people in our own party”.
The Vermont senator left the scandal’s most recent development out of his convention speech: a tranche of leaked DNC emails, released in recent days, affirming his supporters’ suspicions. Some in the MI delegation were shouting “Not for Sale!”
The crowd, which contained a sizeable Sanders contingent, did not take well to the endorsement and began booing and chanting: “Bernie!” They were Bernie Sanders delegates, so there was always going to be tension. “Thank you, Bernie”, she said.
The State Democratic Party reserved one of the larger spaces for coffee for all of the delegates.
Illinois Representative Luis Gutierrez called Trump a “bigot” and for Elizabeth Warren Trump was a “cheat” who “never sacrificed, cares only for himself, every minute of every day”.
This is one issue where Trump has been on both sides. “Hillary Clinton will not do it – it’s going to continue being exactly the same way”. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s speech was a little like that tonight. “We are all in this together and we will all have a voice in the Clinton administration”.
The circumstances of their childrens deaths may be different, but all of the mothers have endorsed Clinton’s campaign.
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Though Wasserman Schultz’s resignation was welcomed by the Sanders team, the compromising posture from the party establishment had so far failed to abate grassroots aversion to Clinton as the former USA secretary of state was attempting to soothe relations with disgruntled Democratic base. Barack Obama’s approval by acclamation, or unanimous vote. This is an “unbelievably critical moment” for Democrats, he told Wisconsin delegates in the latest of a string of pleas for unity.
