Twice on Monday, Sanders appealed to supporters to help build party unity, ahead of his pivotal primetime address to delegates to close the night. But most delegates are Sen.
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But Sanders did his part, chastising those who have insisted they can never vote for Clinton, who will face Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
Police briefly detained more than 50 people after they tried to storm the barricades outside the Democratic National Convention on Monday in a show of anger over Bernie Sanders’ treatment by party leaders, even as he urged his supporters to fall in line behind Hillary Clinton.
But in a group packed with supporters of Vermont Sen.
“I wasn’t a fan of the ‘No TPP!” chant during Elijah Cummings, even though I am against the TPP”, said Erin Biggs, a delegate from Colorado. But she could not yet bring herself to say she’ll vote for Clinton.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as Democratic Party chairwoman on Sunday over leaked emails suggesting the supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primaries by siding with Clinton and bad-mouthing Sanders.
Jaxon Ravens, the chair of the state Democrats, said he was “not at all concerned” by the dissension, and said the state’s delegation behaved respectfully, with most not joining in the boos Monday night. “Bernie!” in response to speakers praising Clinton.
“Together my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution continues”.
But he noted Sanders had won important changes to the Democratic Party platform, including support for a $15 minimum wage and tuition-free college for most middle-class families. “We won this by standing together”, Russell said.
“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here tonight”, he said. Translation: You won a lot, Sanders people. Some of them spent the first couple of days in the city attending Sanders strategy sessions and rallies against Clinton. She talked about how she shared her concerns with Clinton during a campaign stop in Las Vegas earlier this year, and Clinton called her courageous and told her she would worry on her behalf.
“This election is about and must be about the needs of the American people and the kind of future we create for our children and our grandchildren”, Sanders told the crowd. “Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”.
Another Sanders delegate wearing a Marine Corps cap took a swing at a Clinton delegate before Secret Service officers broke up the fracas. “Because as a true public servant, Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments”, she said.
As polls showed Trump ahead of Clinton in the race to the White House, the first lady wowed the Philadelphia crowd as she impeached Trump’s character and hailed the inspirational power of putting a female USA president in the White House for the first time.
He says Donald Trump is “too erratic, unsafe and divisive to trust to the White House”. Speakers on the first night sought to unify the party and highlight differences with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Sanders lost to Clinton in the primary handily.
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“This election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions”, said Sanders. “My ability to sustain myself is on the edge”, she said. In May, Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University polled 1,561 registered voters across the U.S. on a theoretical Sanders/Trump match-up; 48 percent supported Sanders and 39 percent supported Trump. “It’s about our lives”, she said.
