U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL 23rd District) and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) speaks to reporters in the spin room after watching democratic presidential debate.
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In a statement, Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she would “step down as Party Chair at the end of this convention”.
But as recently as Saturday, Wasserman Schultz campaigned with Clinton in Florida, speaking at Clinton’s Miami event with her new running mate Sen.
DNC vice chairwoman Donna Brazile, who will be taking over as chairwoman, had earlier said that she felt that Wasserman Schultz deserved to be part of the convention and to gavel it in.
Bernie Sanders stood by his suggestion that the Democratic convention will get “messy”, but his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said Tuesday the Vermont senator didn’t mean violence and that the word describes the conversations essential to doing the “business of the party”.
Assemblyman Phil Steck is a Sanders delegate at the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia.
Clinton announced she opened a position as an “honorary chair” of her 50 state program to elect Democrats in Senate and House races across the country.
In a statement released on Sunday, Florida representative and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz released a statement concerning her future as the DNC’s leader ― specifically, that she doesn’t have a future in that job anymore.
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“I would ask her to step aside because she’s a distraction in a week that is Hillary Clinton’s week”, David Axelrod a former top strategist to President Obama, told CNN on Sunday ahead of the Florida congresswoman’s decision. She abruptly cancelled that plan just a few hours before she was to gavel open the nominating convention. “That (interest) really shows you that Florida is the most significant battleground state that will make sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States of America”. “I don’t think she’s qualified to be the chair of the DNC not only for these terrible emails, which revealed the prejudice of the DNC, but because we need a party that reaches out to working people and young people”, he told the network.
