Schultz said she would step down from her post after a DNC email hack revealed that party staffers had a bias in favor of the Clinton campaign during the primary.
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Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton made a mistake when she picked Tim Kaine as her running mate.
Sanders is set to meet privately with supporters Monday before the start of the Democratic National Convention. “I think that’s going to have to come from the other side”. But that’s what the experts are telling us.
“That’s just not who we are and should not be tolerated”, Miner said. He’s called for her resignation, and according to Politico, the Vermont senator’s supporting delegates were planning to demand such Monday morning, which would have created huge waves on the first day of the DNC.
Opponents held signs saying “Emails” and similar things.
Sanders’ supporters are so angry about the revelations that the furor forced DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign Sunday.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic Party, said Monday that “we’re done” with the controversy over hacked party emails. Now, Wasserman Schultz will be a big part of the story all week.
She heads the Democratic National Committee, which was recently hit by hackers who leaked emails showing the committee tried to undermine Sen. “We are the state that will deliver the White House”. Sanders generated enormous enthusiasm among young people and liberals during the Democratic primary, voters Hillary Clinton needs to show up for her in November. A leak of DNC staff emails, some disrespectful toward Sanders, broke just before delegates gathered in Philadelphia.
One email in May targeted Sanders’ religious beliefs, with DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall asking colleagues to “get someone to ask his belief” in God, without mentioning Sanders by name.
The Clinton campaign announced Sunday that Schultz would act as honorary chair of an effort to elect Democrats across the United States in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Trump, as his custom, took to Twitter this weekend to gloat over the Democratic chaos.
Sanders declared that Trump poses a danger to the country’s future, but he could not win over the crowd. Meanwhile, his top advisor, Paul Manafort, called on Clinton to drop out of the race altogether.
Sanders will address the convention Monday night, and Obama will speak on Wednesday night.
Sanders is scheduled to take the stage tonight in Philadelpha, along with Senator Elizabeth Warren and First Lady Michelle Obama.
For Democrats who spent last week throwing stones at Republicans’ troubled convention in Cleveland, the scene was a painful reminder of their own glass house. In one of the largest rallies planned for Monday, a huge contingent of pro-Bernie Sanders group is expected to walk across the Ben Franklin Bridge, which connects Camden, New Jersey, with Philadelphia.
But Sanders supporters expect him to not waiver in his support of Clinton or contest her presumptive nomination.
“What if it had been a fair primary and Bernie had lost fairly or won fairly and the DNC would have been OK with that”.
A supporters of Sen. “I don’t consider Bernie to be a Democrat”.
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As such, she shouldn’t be a distraction at the Democratic Convention.
