On NBC’s Meet The Press, Sanders wouldn’t say whether Schultz should be forced to resign before the Democratic convention begins.
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Kaine, a former choir member at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, sang a solo during Communion.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz confirmed the selection of Philadelphia on Facebook when she pulled a cheesesteak out of a refrigerator in a video.
Among the emails included in the release by hackers Friday were plots by DNC staffers to plant questions about Sanders’ Jewish faith ahead of the Kentucky and West Virginia primary contests. Clinton announced Kaine as her running mate on Friday. He later told reporters outside the church: “We needed some prayers today and we got some prayers, and we got some support and it really feels good”. Some of them showed committee staffers plotted against and disregarded Sanders’ presidential campaign. He also believes that DNC was “at opposition to our campaign” all along, he said in interviews with CNN and other news outlets Sunday morning. “I mean, that is just totally unacceptable behavior”, he said.
But party disunity also seems to be a factor in Philadelphia, given Sanders’ demands for a new leader and general unhappiness among his many supporters about how the nomination process unfolded.
Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame away from DNC officials to “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have hacked into DNC computers “for the objective of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee.
“It should have been called the Trump party”, she says.
Obama tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Trump’s comments amount to an admission that the USA “might not abide” by NATO’s “most central tenet”.
Superdelegates – unbound delegates who typically hold or have held elective office Congress, as a governor or the like – are free to vote for the candidate of their choice during the formal nominating process.
Two superdelegates left their positions in the last month, while Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii died from cancer. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.
It is the support of these unpledged delegates that, when combined with bound delegates distributed as a result of caucus and primary vote totals, pushed Clinton over the threshold to clinch the nomination.
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More than 5,000 delegates are among the 50,000 people set to attend the gathering at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia, which is expected to culminate with Clinton being named the party’s official nominee for president.
