The emails, between members of the party’s national committee, make it pretty clear that the party’s centre – meant to be impartial – did everything they could to damage the Bernie Sanders campaign during the primary season earlier this year.
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This bias was widely assumed, especially by the Sanders campaign, but it’s something else to see it clearly and explicitly stated.
The head of the Democratic Party resigned on Sunday amid a furor over embarrassing leaked emails, hoping to head off a growing rebellion by Bernie Sanders supporters on the eve of the convention to nominate Hillary Clinton for the White House.
A trove of internal emails released Friday by WikiLeaks showed Democratic National Convention officials belittling the Sanders campaign and, in one instance, questioning his Jewish background and whether they could get someone to publicly ask if he is an atheist.
Dan O’Neal, 68, is a retired schoolteacher and delegate from Arizona, said Wasserman Schultz has to be censured.
Mr Sanders and his supporters have also expressed disappointment at Mrs Clinton’s choice of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, preferring someone further to the left.
Bernie Sanders supporters protest. The vowed to keep fighting for climate and environmental justice issues, even though their preferred presidential candidate, Sanders, would not be driving the party’s agenda. “It would be remarkable to have the first Hispanic Chair of the Democratic National Committee”.
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.
Party wrangles aside, Mrs Clinton is within days of her long-held ambition to become the party’s official presidential nominee.
Trump appeared to relish in the Democratic chaos Sunday, writing, “The Dems Convention is cracking up”. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, is scheduled to address the full convention.
But Sanders repeatedly voiced frustration with a DNC and party establishment that he felt was stacked against him, and the resentment from Sanders and his supporters threatened to disrupt the convention.
Clinton arrives in Philadelphia with 2,814 delegates to Sanders’ 1,893, according to an Associated Press count.
In a statement, Ms Wasserman Schultz said she would “step down as party chair at the end of this convention”.
Malloy has been a top surrogate for Clinton and supported her over Sanders throughout the primary.
The protests this week in Philadelphia include demonstrations outside the convention called “Crash the Party” and “Shut Down The DNC”. “It’s a stacked deck”, said her husband Dave.
Sanders’ backers failed to add language to the platform specifically opposing the TPP. Anti-abortion activists who oppose Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid meanwhile marched over the weekend in West Philadelphia.
Despite the loss, Dart said Sanders’ forces earned significant victories during the platform development process and argues many supporters will get over their disappointment and back Clinton this fall. “And his answer – more fear, more division, more anger, more hate – was yet another reminder that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement after Trump’s convention speech. He said he is “100 percent” behind Clinton and is for what she believes in.
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Mrs Clinton has been dogged during the campaign by controversy over her use of a secret email server when she was secretary of state, which led to chants of “lock her up” by delegates at last week’s Republican National Convention.
