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A damaging email leak exposed collusion of the Democratic National Committee’s higher ups to undercut Sanders’ campaign and nominate Clinton. “And that is he is a demagogue, a bully”, Sanders said. The senator may have taken the long road to get to this point in 2016, but it’s a destination he’s reached several times before.
The proceedings will begin with a roll call vote at about 5 p.m. ET., which is expected to culminate when the delegates officially nominate Hillary Clinton as their party’s nominee for president.
The Sanders’ supporters said the next step in his movement is to bring his values into local and state elections. The group includes Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, the mother of Hadiya Pendleton, 15, who was killed on Chicago’s South Side just a week after she participated in activities surrounding President Obama’s second inauguration.
There are signs within the Kentucky delegation that the two camps are finding common ground.
It’s hard to say whether or not Bernie Sanders formally nominating Hillary Clinton as the party’s nominee will help fix the problems within the Democratic Party.
But if Google Trends is any indication, people don’t actually understand what a roll call vote is.
Michelle Obama’s message was at once conciliatory, raw and personal – and earned by far the most positive response of the night.
Quiet echoes of the acrimony that marked the first day of the convention were still heard in the arena with some Sanders supporters booing when Clinton was mentioned.
Westphal is also focused on Clinton’s commitment to pursue a constitutional amendment to undo the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed unlimited spending to influence elections.
But after Warren announced that she was not entering the race, 56 percent of her supporters backed Sanders as their first choice, while only 12 percent supported Clinton.
Monday had seen protests by “Bernie or Bust” supporters who said they would not vote for Ms Clinton and said they believed she will no better that the Republican candidates who had ran for the presidency.
Mr Sanders found himself being booed when he urged supporters that their was no alternative but to support Ms Clinton if they wanted to avoid Mr Trump becoming president.
Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate from California, told The New York Times, “As beloved as Bernie is, he’s not running the show”.
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.
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Do you think the majority of Bernie backers will unite with the Clinton cause going forward, or will the dissent carry beyond this week’s convention?
