Sanders also said that if her were elected president he would bounce Wasserman Schultz out as the head of the Democratic National Committee Chairperson.
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Bernie Sanders made his remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper.
Sunday making the rounds on the political talk shows Sanders went on the record backing his supporter Tim Canova, a little known college professor, in Florida’s 23rd congressional district over the long established Wasserman Shultz.
“I’m so proud to know that Bernie Sanders favors our progressive campaign”, Canova said in the statement. His views are much closer to mine than Wasserman Schultz’s.
“I believe the composition of the standing committees must reflect the relative support that has been received by both campaigns”, Sanders wrote in a letter May 6.
The senator from Vermont was allowed to choose almost as many members of the Democratic Party platform-writing body as Clinton, who is expected to clinch the nomination next month.
In a speech given at the Florida Democratic Party’s Swing State Blue Gala in Orlando Saturday, Wasserman Schultz, the congresswoman from Weston, focused her attention on Republican apparent nominee Donald Trump and never mentioned the names of the Democrats battling it out, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen.
“We’re doing this because it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics”, Weaver said in a fundraising email.
‘And that is, that is, that the Democratic Party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision it can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change, ‘ Sanders continued. Canova is supporting Sanders. “It’s not the DNC”.
She also criticized the behavior of his supporters, who caused a ruckus in Nevada last weekend and suggested Sanders should have more robustly condemned their antics. Some Sanders backers claim the system was “rigged” from the start to exclude a challenger.
Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute in Washington and a frequent commentator on Arab-Israeli issues, previously served on the larger platform committee that will approve the document, but this is the first time he has served on the drafting committee, he said.
According to her most recent campaign finance disclosure, Wasserman Schultz – who has never had a primary opponent – raised about $1.5 million since January 2015 and reported $840,000 on hand in through March.
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Sanders has accused the DNC and Wasserman Schultz of favoring Clinton.
