Hudson, at the national convention in Philadelphia, said he is switching to Hillary Clinton.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Bernie Sanders loyalists protested inside and outside the Democratic National Convention site and clashed with police on Tuesday after Hillary Clinton won the party’s presidential nomination.
Hillary Clinton easily exceeded the 2,383-delegate threshold necessary to become the United States’ first female presidential nominee of a major party. All made arguments for a unified Democratic Party that must rally around Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in November. After all the delegates cast votes for their candidate, Sanders motioned to the chair to set aside the delegate totals and enable Clinton to be named the party’s nominee by acclamation, the parliamentary equivalent of unanimous consent.
Backstage, Politico reported that the Clinton and Sanders camps were trying to negotiate a way for Sanders to take a bigger role in the roll call, where the delegates would formally cast their votes for the nomination, with a huge percentage still pledged to the Vermont Senator. Much of the convention’s second night will be devoted to introducing voters to Clinton anew, including three hours of speakers who will highlight issues she has championed for years, including health care and advocacy for children and families.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, a former first lady and U.S. senator, but some of his supporters protested in Philadelphia against the party leadership’s apparent backing of her during the bitter Democratic primary fight. Whereas the RNC had its share of drama on the convention stage, the DNC’s controversy has been kept outside of the arena (think e-mail scandal, Sanders supporters’ walk out).
He said that he would “absolutely” vote for Hillary Clinton, as “we are doing nothing but dividing the party more if we go out and write Bernie in, or vote foe Trump, or vote for Jill Stein”. “The story of generations of people who have felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation but who kept on striving and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves and I watch my daughters, two handsome, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”, she said.
Below are some tweets summing up different responses to Clinton’s candidacy. It is the first time he has been ahead since early May.
Additional police officers were called in to prevent more Sanders supporters from accessing the media area.
“With 33,000 Americans dying every year, Democrats believe that we must finally take sensible action to address gun violence”.
Minutes earlier, former President Bill Clinton took on the role of devoted political spouse, declaring his wife an impassioned “change-maker” as he served as character witness.
“I feel their pain, you know what I’m saying?” he said.
Union leader Richard Trumka said Clinton needed to avoid overshadowing his wife in Tuesday’s speech. “She doesn’t build walls around her heart”, McBath said.
But Florida is a swing state, she added, so she doesn’t have the luxury of voting for anyone other than Clinton. Others told Breitbart News that they meant to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party.
Some die-hard Sanders supporters signaled going into the convention that they were hoping to persuade superdelegates to back Sanders and make an eleventh-hour bid to capture the party’s nomination. She became the first lady of Arkansas and the first lady of the United States.
There was plenty of emotion on the other side of the tally, too – including when Mr. Sanders’ brother, Larry Sanders, stood up in the delegation from Democrats who live overseas, and said how proud his parents would have been of their son.
So as of late, it doesn’t appear Trump will lure a lot of Sanders supporters to his side.
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“She wants to break barriers to opportunities so you won’t have barriers”.
