That’s despite Sanders’ 22-point victory in in the state in February.
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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Barack Obama will add an optimistic pitch on Wednesday to the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman us president, as he seeks to hand off the White House to a trusted fellow Democrat and stop Republican Donald Trump. “I wish I did”, Nguyen said.
Sanders supporters staged a Tuesday night sit-in at a media tent just outside the Wells Fargo Arena. Senator Sanders has moved, in the spirit of unity, to suspend the rules, to suspend the rules and nominate Hillary Clinton by acclamation as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
Others complained that not all of Sanders’ primary votes were counted.
On Monday, Sanders supporters in the California delegation expressed their displeasure to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, booing his speech and chanting, “Count the votes!”
Sanders addressed hundreds of Texas delegation members at a Democratic breakfast.
There was also a parade of speakers who focused on outlining Mrs Clinton’s many achievements, from her time as a law student in the 1970s to her recent position as secretary of state. Does the superdelegate system need to be changed? And I know that we have three, nearly four years to work that out in a way that I believe that we’ll have a better opportunity to bring all Democrats together and make them feel that their vote counts.
Biden gave a passionate defense of Clinton, saying he’s known her for more than three decades as an advocate for the middle class. “If you worry about your job and getting a decent pay…then there’s only one, only one person in this election who will help you”, Biden said. “Trump does not, and that’s not Bernie Sanders’ view, that is the view of many Republicans”. “It really took off when I met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971”, he said. Democracy and the Supreme Court are at stake. He says he is trying to shift his movement to encourage people to run for office and fight for the issues he pushed for during his campaign. You couldn’t hardly go to a phone bank without finding him there.
“Nearly 100 years after women got the vote, you people have made history and you’re going to make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president, and she will be a great president”, she said.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders continue rallying in Philadelphia. That’s why I chose to remain neutral in the primary in New Hampshire until after the primary was over and the delegates had been chosen. The tributes to Hillary Clinton as a champion of the downtrodden. And they recall with little affection the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton – in particular his welfare overhaul and tough-on-crime policies. But a lot of those people have come to see her, fairly or not, as embodying all the things that enrage them. “To be honest, I felt like I didn’t belong there at the DNC after she was nominated”.
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“She flew all night long from Cambodia to the Middle East to get a ceasefire that would avoid a full-out shooting war between Hamas and Israel, to protect the peace of the region”.
