Ohio’s Michael Skindell, a Sanders delegate, said Monday he planned to “strongly support the nominee of the party”.
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For Clinton, support and turnout from the state’s growing Latino electorate is crucial.
The statement says the party won’t tolerate disrespectful language. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to quit as chairwoman immediately.
And they both will head to Philadelphia for the week-long convention…just three short days after the Republicans wrapped up their convention in Cleveland.
“Any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”, he declared in a headlining address on the opening night of the Democratic convention. These are my values, ‘ it said.
There were some signs that Sanders’ supporters did not plan to go quietly. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate.
And on Saturday its importance was on full display when Hillary Clinton chose Florida as the backdrop to introduce her running mate, Virginia Sen. As the convention opened, they still erupted in chants of “Bernie” and booed Clinton the first several times her name was mentioned.
Campaign chair John Podesta started the process after Clinton’s convincing victory over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in April’s New York primary, dropping off binders of information with Clinton at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
“We’ve lived in this neighborhood 32 years”. “Trump is a bully and a demagogue”.
Sanders endorsed Clinton last month but has yet to drop out of the race for the nomination despite not having the number of delegates and superdelegates necessary to secure a win. Cory Booker, a young black lawmaker and rising Democratic star, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals who has emerged as one of the Democrats’ toughest critics of Trump. “You know, I was in a NY restaurant the other night, and somebody comes over to my table and says congratulations”. “We’re going to have a convention this week that highlights success stories”.
Trump dismissed the suggestion in a tweet: “The joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC emails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”.
Emails posted by Wikileaks on its document disclosure website show DNC officials scoffing at the Sanders campaign – and, in one instance, questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion.
Clinton campaign officials blamed the hack, which is now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Russian military intelligence agencies.
Clinton campaigned in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, serving up a harsh critique of Trump’s foreign policy and what she said was his “trash talk about America”. Turning to Clinton, he added: “We’re going to be companeros del alma”. “I took on banks and landlords, real estate firms and local governments, anyone who treated people unfairly – like the insurance company that was discriminating against minority neighborhoods all across America in issuing homeowners’ insurance”, he said. Bernie Sanders offered an amendment to get rid of superdelegates – party insiders who can vote for the candidate of their choice at the convention. Taking the stage to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, a beaming Clinton linked hands with Kaine and promised next week’s convention would be about “building bridges, not walls”. But it did little to temper their ongoing concerns about the woman at the top of the Democratic ticket.
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“If you bring in someone with great credentials, that’s fine, but inclusivity of the progressive agenda can be a more important message”, Bullard said.
