Sanders scored a major victory with the forced resignation of party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz following the release of emails showing her staff favored Clinton during the primary despite vows of neutrality.
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“I think she should resign, period”, the Vermont senator told ABC’s This Week.
The emails include several stinging denunciations of Sanders and his organization before and after the DNC briefly shut off his campaign’s access to the party’s key list of likely Democratic voters.
On Saturday, the DNC Rules Committee rescinded Wasserman Schultz’s position as chairwoman of the convention, replacing her with OH congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who will now preside over the event in her place, according to a DNC source who spoke with CNN.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves as he walks off the stage after checking out the podium before the start of the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Monday, July 25, 2016.
“To not be fair during this entire process, it’s kind of shameful”, delegate Sanjay Patel, a Sanders supporter from Brevard County said before she spoke at Florida delegation breakfast.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals and one of the party’s toughest critics of Trump, took the stage and, in tune with the proceedings, exclaimed, “Thank you, Bernie”.
“[Hillary Clinton’s] campaign and her message this week is that we’re stronger together, we can solve our problems, we can begin to project a better country with a better future for everybody and tonight we begin that conversation, said Brazile”. The correspondence, posted by WikiLeaks over the weekend, showed top officials at the supposedly neutral DNC favoring Clinton over Sanders in the presidential primaries. Her own supporters yelled back, standing on chairs and waving T-shirts bearing her name. Wasserman Schultz’s seat in Congress is up for re-election in November.
The emails, which were released by WikiLeaks just days before the party’s convention launches in Philadelphia, appear to show top DNC officials trading ideas on how to hurt Sanders at the polls.
While Mrs. Obama has often avoided overt politics during her almost eight years in the White House, her frustration with Trump’s rise was evident.
And while he was speaking, Wasserman Schultz announced she would not gavel in the convention, an embarrassing acknowledgment that her presence onstage would only showcase deep party divisions. They said they couldn’t fathom backing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
“We welcome this concession – as well as Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s decision to step down as party chair – but it is not enough to justify relenting in the struggle to win fundamental democracy reform both within and outside the Party”, Newkirk told CNN Sunday.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accompanied by Sen.
President Vladimir Putin has claimed Russian Federation does not meddle in other countries’ domestic affairs, saying that he would be willing to work with either Clinton or Republican nominee Donald Trump. She added: “I know that the chair will hold those employees accountable if they’re found to have acted outside of that neutrality and even-handedness”.
The Florida congresswoman’s resignation is effective later this week, though she also stepped down from her official convention duties. They shouted down pro-Clinton speakers and sent threatening messages to state party Chairwoman Roberta Lange after posting her phone number and address on social media.
Overcoming the lingering resentment among Sanders supporters may become the task of the week. “I just think it’s wrong for her and it’s wrong for us”.
The furor was a blow to a party keen on projecting stability in contrast to the volatility of Republican candidate Donald Trump, who was formally nominated last week, and overshadowed preparations in Philadelphia for Clinton’s coronation as the Democratic nominee to face Trump in the Nov 8 White House election.
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Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame away from DNC officials to “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have hacked into DNC computers “for the objective of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee.
