Russian hackers have previously been blamed for infiltrating email servers in the White House, U.S. Department of State, and The Pentagon, as well as carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine, Estonia, and the nation of Georgia.
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“They are not listening to their candidate – Bernie doesn’t want them to be doing this”, he said. Norman Solomon, national coordinator of Delegates for Bernie. A Pew Research Center survey, conducted June 15-26, found that 85% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters who backed Sanders in the primary said they plan to vote for Clinton in the general election. Others said that – regardless of what the senator was about to say in his speech – the Sanders movement has now become more than just a campaign to them, something nearly spiritual.
Sanders was a relatively unknown Vermont senator when he made a decision to challenge for the Democratic nomination. It’s true of most white Democrats, too. She noted that Clinton, when she lost the Democratic primary battle in 2008, didn’t leave the political realm, but returned to public service as secretary of state.
“It’s going to be up to the superdelegates – and I just hope they vote with their conscience and what’s in the best interest of our country, because Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who will defeat Donald Trump soundly”, said Patel, a 39-year-old management consultant. It also sapped some of her energy coming out of Trump’s chaotic convention last week and the well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate, Virginia Sen. He stunned the Clinton campaign with his broad support among young people and liberals, as well as his online fundraising prowess. Some of the emails showed hostility from top DNC officials toward Sanders’ campaign, including emails in which Wasserman Schultz referred to Sanders’ campaign manager as a liar.
That stance was echoed by several other Sanders supporters over the past couple of days, as they arrived in Philadelphia to news of email leaks showing officials with the ostensibly neutral Democratic National Committee (DNC) had favored Clinton.
Massachusetts Democratic bigwigs pleaded with irate Bernie Sanders delegates yesterday, as the damaging WikiLeaks dump got the first day of the Democratic
National Convention – themed “United Together” – off to a rocky start. Tim Kaine (D-VA) for vice president.
When at mid-day Sanders addressed more than a thousand of his delegates at the city’s convention center, the crowd erupted in fury when he asked them to switch their allegiance to Clinton.
“Brothers and sisters”, he said over their jeers, “this is the real world that we live in”.
“Trump is a bully and a demagogue”, he said. Maybe some of the reason people are chanting is to be anti-Hillary.
But for some, Sanders’ infectious idealism about an America where the people rule, and not corporations, has been channeled into vitriol against Clinton.
“We have to make sure that we move together in a unified way!” she said. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a favorite of Democratic progressives and Sanders fans.
Another protester, Michael Arnold of Atlanta, would not have been out of place at a Trump rally, sporting a T-shirt that read “Hillary for prison”.
A CNN/ORC poll conducted after the convention and released earlier Monday had him beating Clinton 44 percent to 39 percent-a 6 percentage point bounce that the campaign dubbed the “Trump Bump”.
“Our credibility as a movement will be damaged by booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays”, Sanders wrote.
“I’m gonna be a Democrat”, said Manuel Zapata, a Sanders delegate from Tracy, Calif”.
“This right now, is the greatest country on earth”, she said.
She lauded Clinton as a woman with a heart and as a future president who never “buckles under pressure” or takes the easy way out.
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Jose Navarrete, a Bernie delegate from California, echoed that he’d be more scared of Clinton as president than Trump. That’s what (GOP nominee) Donald Trump wants. Here, Clinton is booed because she’s the nominee. “It’s hard to feel they have our best interests in mind”, she said.
