The furor in Philadelphia was a setback to Democrats’ hopes their convention would be a smoothly run show of party unity in contrast to the volatile campaign of Trump.
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Severe thunderstorms were in the forecast for late afternoon and early evening. Bernie Sanders in the primary.
Many in the crowd wore Sanders shirts, buttons or lanyards. He carried a big sign saying the DNC stands for “Dishonest Nefarious Corrupt”.
But after Bauman addressed the crowd – many of whom were mingling about clutching posters that featured Rosie Riveter posters with a tagline that read “Elect Hillary Clinton and a Democratic Congress” while others hung onto Sanders placards – the dissension didn’t stop.
The event was organized by NextGen Climate, a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy organization.
Amos Miers, 39, of St. Petersburg, Florida, expressed frustration that Sanders didn’t elaborate on why they should support Clinton.
National party organizations are supposed to be neutral during the primaries and caucuses.
At the Republican National Convention last week, Colbert took over the microphone on stage in a “Hunger Games” themed prank.
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two lovely and intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”, Obama said. Nineteen hundred of them are delegates to the Democratic convention, and it is entirely possible that procedural skirmishes could erupt in Philadelphia as they did in Cleveland.
The prime-time refrain all week at Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland had the subtlety of a freight train rumbling along Lake Erie. “We got all these air conditioners working, they’re closing it in”.
Monday’s New York Times highlighted Democratic “discord” on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as outrage about the contents of a massive email leak from the Democratic National Committee, showing the DNC colluding to scuttle the insurgent campaign of Sen.
Hillary Clinton says she will not respond to the repeated name-calling from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or make a name for him, the way he calls her “Crooked Hillary”, she said in an interview with CBS “60 Minutes”. There are barricades and blockages around the Wells Fargo Arena, south of downtown, but it’s fairly easy to drive around the city.
Trump tweeted, “An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates”.
Fireworks started even before the convention was gaveled in, amping up the stakes for this week.
Bernie Sanders supporter and organizer Billy Taylor held a coffin painted with donkeys during a march Sunday in Philadelphia.
The delegates wouldn’t see their senator nominated for president, but the convention brought Vermonters a chance to vote on some of the issues closely related to his campaign, including the future role of Democratic superdelegates and a party platform that includes a $15 an hour minimum wage. He was waiting for the rest of his family while he watched former Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter a few yards away, in a suit, shooting a CNN panel broadcast. However, Ross says there are plans in place in the case of mass arrests.
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Democratic National Convention protesters are gathering on the New Jersey side of a bridge leading to Philadelphia, preparing to march across it and possibly shut down traffic.
