Bernie Sanders will somehow snag the nomination when Democrats gather in Philadelphia on Monday for their national political convention.
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Trump is telling veterans gathered at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Charlotte that: “Our politicians have totally failed you”.
“A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace”, it said.
Demonstrators make their way around downtown, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
Clinton and President Barack Obama both quickly praised the departed party chief, hoping to move past the ugliness and onto Monday’s launch of an optimistic celebration featuring high-powered elected officials and celebrities who will try to re-introduce Clinton to a general election audience.
In a separate interview with left-wing online network, The Young Turks, Sarandon calls the leaked e-mails that show the Democratic National Committee and chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz strongly backing Clinton for the party bid, “disgusting”.
“The email issue and some of these other issues that are brought up, I think, frankly are red herrings”, said Mark Lipton, 70, an attorney and delegate from Panama City Beach. “I think her character is beyond reproach”.
Florida delegates are confident Democrats will unite behind Clinton this fall and the convention will aid the post-primary healing process.
Clinton said she did not want to call him a name but wanted to “talk about what he’s done”, like his rhetoric against immigrants and suggesting a judge of Mexican heritage was biased against him. Still many delegates, and Sanders himself, said they planned to fall in line, mindful of the Republican alternative. I’m going to be picking up the phone. But even after Sanders urged his supporters to back Clinton, some were flashing thumbs-down signals and waving signs that said, “not Hillary, not Trump”.
In addition to changing perceptions about Clinton, a goal of the convention is to create a portrait of party unity in contrast to the GOP convention, something that may be made more hard following the Wikileaks email release that some Sanders supporters say confirms the party was working against the Vermont senator.
Republican Donald Trump is receiving an enthusiastic response from veterans as he criticizes Democrats and vows to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He says he doesn’t want Trump to enter the White House “to be spewing that kind of mean-spirited hate that doesn’t even belong in a playground sandbox”. After his win in the primary, Sanders has 44 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 39.
“I’m not going to give up until it’s exactly 100 percent impossible for him to get it”, he said.
He said: “When I see this, you know, ‘Crooked Hillary, ‘ or I see the ‘Lock her up, ‘ it’s just ridiculous”.
Florida will once again be a battleground state this fall.
Trump said on Friday that he was only pointing out a National Enquirer photo that appeared to show Cruz’s father with assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
For months, the conversations surrounding the nominating conventions were pretty clear: the Republican event in Cleveland was going to a contested power struggle with everything from insults to food thrown all over the place, and the Democrats in Philadelphia were going to neatly coalesce behind Hillary Clinton.
But, Clinton added, she put herself through it all because of her faith in the country. Inside the arena, chants of “Bernie” echoed through the arena as the convention opened, and boos could be heard at times when Clinton’s name was raised.
‘Boy, do I believe in it now more than ever after seeing what was presented last week, ‘ she said.
Marilyn Mordes, 61, a Clinton supporter and delegate from Stuart, chalks up the close race to the different styles of the candidates and their campaigns.
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“Voters will see very much a connection from life lessons she learned growing up in the family she did and what has really rooted her in what have become the causes of her life”, said Benenson. He takes every opportunity to get free media coverage. “I just was so saddened by it”.
