“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert has brought his “Hunger Games” themed spoof about the presidential campaign to the Democratic National Convention. Bernie Sanders’s chances during the primaries.
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Though planned for months, Sunday’s marches came as fractures appeared in the party that had been trying to display a show of unity in recent weeks. She said she would vote for Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein if Sanders doesn’t win the formal nomination this week, a popular fallback choice cited by attendees. Timothy M. Kaine (Va.), their nominations. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., holds up a sign call calling for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to be fired, Sunday, July 24, 2016, in Philadelphia.
None of that is sanctioned by Sanders.
Sanders has yet to release his delegates and it’s still unclear if they will unite behind Clinton in an effort to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump. “My second message is that we continue the political revolution and fight for a government that represents all of us, and not just the 1 percent, fight to break up the banks on Wall Street, fight for a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, fight to rebuild our infrastructure and create millions of decent jobs, fight for real criminal justice and immigration reform”.
Sanders will address the convention Monday night, and Obama will speak on Wednesday night. Sanders accused her of fostering disunity, and called her a thorn stuck in the side of the Democratic Party.
Both issues are expected to earn mentions in the speech. Bernie Sanders supporters expect about 3,000 protesters will join them in a march from City Hall to a park near the convention site.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Sanders, said Wasserman Schultz’s removal was unlikely to soothe those who back the Vermont senator. Some carried signs like, “Bernie would end fracking”, and the now defunct “Bernie for President”. News Center 7’s Jim Otte was in the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday scoping out the logistics and said that the floor is mostly taken up with delegates from Hillary Clinton’s three home states – Illinois, where she was born, Arkansas, where she was first lady, and NY, where she lives. “It is not disrespectful; it is unifying to find out what the best unifying ticket is”.
Their demands center on a “package of comprehensive democracy reforms” that would beef up voting rights protections, push for publicly funded elections, and seek to overturn Citizens United within the first 100 days of a new Democratic administration. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), are friends of Kaine and supporters of the ticket.
“Would I have preferred to see someone like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton? Yes, I would have”, Sanders said. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate.
“I think she made a decision that’s gonna help us move ahead”, said Laning. “The party clearly is broken”.
The head of the Democratic National Committee is resigning after several private emails were released that suggested the DNC was biased toward Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary election.
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The tension, she added, was more likely to come during Black Lives Matter-related events, due in large part to “a really tense relationship between the police and the city’s African-American community because of a history of over-policing and discriminatory policing”.
