The day after Senator Bernie Sanders urged supporters to rally behind Hillary Clinton as the Democratic National Convention got underway in Philadelphia, chaos erupted among members of the Texas delegation.
Advertisement
Garcia and others at her table, including Sanders delegate Brian Carolus, were loudly booing and chanting “Bernie!” throughout the California breakfast.
Now they are looking forward to Tuesday night’s roll call, which would allow every delegate to cast votes for either Sanders or Clinton. “The choice is not even close”, he said.
Speaking to the convention delegates on Monday night, Sanders said understood “that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process”.
Democratic National Convention kicked off yesterday with much fury. The unrest – stoked by leaked emails showing DNC party officials talking about working against the Sanders campaign – led to Sanders texting delegates on Monday and calling for them to not disrupt the convention floor.
“I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders”, Trump said last week. He recalled in 2008, when he was a Barack Obama delegate to that year’s Democratic National Convention, there was concern Clinton supporters would never unify behind the party’s then-nominee. Bernie Sanders’ primary challenge has unleashed supporters’ vitriol toward the party establishment that Sanders himself has been unable to rein in.
For his part, Sanders delivered a rousing prime-time address on Monday night, in which he enumerated his oft-expressed views on income inequality, campaign funding, and climate change.
He’s brought together the country’s left, right and center in the past to form winning coalitions – something Hillary Clinton needs to replicate in 2016 to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Still, the pro-Sanders faction weighed in with resonant “boos” when speakers called for them to shift their support to Clinton.
The “Love Trumps Hate” signs and the “Clinton/Kaine” signs were almost outnumbered by the “No TPP” signs being furiously waved by delegates, signs that may just as easily have been proudly displayed by delegates at the Republican convention last week. “They don’t want to talk about it”, Trump said. She said the presidency couldn’t be “boiled down to 140 characters” and that “you can’t have a thin skin”.
Advertisement
Deborah Armstrong, of Spokane, Washington, said she and her husband went bankrupt because of his health problems, which required a heart transplant.
