Tim Canova said during a political rally.
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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.
Mrs Clinton has said she already considers herself the de facto nominee and is increasingly turning her attention to Donald Trump, saying on Sunday that the rhetoric of the presumptive Republican nominee was risky.
Sanders has said the DNC has rigged the election through its administration of its rules and by a debate schedule that at first appeared aimed at burying news coverage with placement in low-viewing time slots.
“Do I think she is the kind of chair that the Democratic Party needs?”
“I am so proud to serve the people of Florida’s 23rd district and I am confident that they know that I am an effective fighter and advocate on their behalf in Congress”, Wasserman Schultz said. Sanders and his supporters have complained about the nomination process and ways they believe it has helped Clinton, including debates held on Saturday nights, closed primaries in major states such as NY, and the use of superdelegates – essentially free-agent party and union stalwarts who are overwhelmingly backing Clinton.
Sanders said if he is elected president, he would terminate her chairmanship of the DNC.
Sanders’ tenacity is paying off: The senator from Vermont will name five members to the 15-member committee that writes the platform at the Democratic Party’s national convention in late July in Philadelphia, while Clinton will get to name six.
Sanders’ opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has called for comprehensive immigration reform to create a pathway to citizenship. Sanders’s picks include people from outside the usual sphere of party influence, including a Native American activist and author and racial justice activist Cornel West.
Democratic worries about party unity were exacerbated by last weekend’s state party convention in Nevada, where unhappy Sanders supporters disrupted the proceedings in a dispute over rules.
Sanders said he was “bothered” by the portrayal of the Las Vegas convention, saying it did not turn violent as some media reports indicated.
On Saturday, Wasserman Schultz responded to Sanders’ endorsement of her rival with a claim that she would not take sides in the Democratic primary race.
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“What happened is people were rude, that’s not good, they were booing, that’s not good, they behaved in some ways that were a little bit boorish, not good, but let’s not talk about that as violence”, he said on ABC. He said at least two counties failed to notify some voters of their right to request a ballot to vote in the Democratic, Libertarian or American Independent Party contests. Canova has said he backs Sanders in the Democratic primary race.
