“Going forward, the best way for me to accomplish [the goals of the Democratic party] is to step down as Party Chair at the end of this convention”, Wasserman Schultz said.
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In one of the emails a high-ranking member of the party leadership suggests Sanders’ religious beliefs should be used against him in states with high numbers of Christian voters.
Clinton and President Barack Obama each released statements praising Wasserman Schultz’s leadership.
As Donna Brazile takes over for Debbie Wasserman Schultz as head of the Democratic National Committee, CNN has announced it will suspend her contributor agreement with the network.
“The party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people”, Sanders said. Tim Kaine, center, and his wife, Anne Holton as they arrive for Mass St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, their longtime parish, his debut as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Sunday, July 24, 2016.
The Clinton team worked to portray their party’s convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme. Wasserman Schultz’s seat in Congress is up for re-election in November.
She was referring to the Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Philadelphia from Monday through Thursday this week.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager accuses Russian Federation of leaking emails on objective from the Democratic National Committee to help Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election.
But party disunity is certain to also be a factor in Philadelphia, given Wasserman Schultz’s departure and the general unhappiness among many Sanders supporters, intensified by both the emails and by Clinton’s pick of Sen. Sanders’ supporters say they are concerned that Kaine is not progressive enough.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, but his delegates are pushing for a state-by-state tally.
Sanders delegates are mulling ways to show support for Sanders during the convention. They did not succeed in an effort to pass an amendment abolishing superdelegates, but they did win a compromise deal with the Clinton camp – a “unity commission” that will review the overall procedures and will seek to limit the role of superdelegates in future elections.
Saturday, an official with the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said: “We are very proud of the campaign that we ran”.
How the emails were stolen hasn’t been confirmed.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary’s orchestrated collusion cheated thousands of honest Americans, who have invested enormous amounts of money and personal time for real change”, said one of the marchers, Dan Haggerty, 54, an electrician from California.
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On the eve of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, party officials were holding discussions about whether Schultz should resign as chairwoman of the DNC, the Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.
