The last stand of the Bernie supporters is getting a ton of play, especially on cable news, but the reality is that the Democratic convention is not greatly divided. I don’t even think he’s serious about running for president. He received strong support from young voters.
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Destine Madu, a protester from Maplewood, New Jersey, said it doesn’t matter if Sanders is calling on his backers to support Hillary Clinton.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party”. But Sanders’ aides reached out to the Clinton campaign Monday afternoon to express concerns that the chairwoman’s ouster wouldn’t be enough to keep supporters from disrupting the convention, according to a Democratic official. That request was also met with boos from some of his supporters.
He responded, “This is the real world”.
Steven Abreu, a Sanders delegate from Plainview, said that despite calls from Sanders for his supporters to back Clinton, he won’t do it, at least for now.
Neale, Pennsylvania’s youngest Democratic delegate, is playing the long game: Sanders didn’t win, but he started a movement that won’t end on November 8.
Following a speech given in Philadelphia to Democratic National Convention delegates by Bernie Sanders, his wife, Jane, was caught on a hot mic, saying, “They don’t know your name is being put in nomination”. She held up a sign that said “emails” as Wasserman Schultz spoke at the Florida delegation breakfast Monday. Federal investigators tried to warn the DNC about a potential intrusion in their computer network months before the party moved to try to fix the problem, United States officials briefed on the probe tell CNN.
Sanders delegates told The Daily Caller Monday they felt further betrayed by Clinton after she hired the now former DNC chair.
The Florida congresswoman’s resignation is effective later this week, though she also stepped down from her official convention duties.
Patrick Miller is a political scientist at the University of Kansas. He does not expect the “drama” at last week’s Republican convention and the start of this week’s Democratic convention to have a big effect.
At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme.
Chung said that bump was still there after a week of plagiarism allegations and an endorsement snub from primary runner up, Ted Cruz.
Discussions between the two camps prompted Sanders to send emails and text messages to supporters asking them not to protest.
“We want Bernie”, they shouted in a show of anger at both Clinton’s victory in the race for the Democratic nomination and emails leaked on Friday suggesting the party leadership had tried to sabotage Sanders’ insurgent campaign.
CrowdStrike, a computer security firm that looked into the hacking of Democratic computers, blamed two Russian intelligence-affiliated organizations.
The FBI said on Monday it would investigate the nature and scope of the hack. The correspondence, posted by WikiLeaks over the weekend, showed top officials at the supposedly neutral DNC favoring Clinton over Sanders in the presidential primaries. Trump called those claims a “joke”.
“The new joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous emails, which never should have been written (stupid) Because Putin likes me”.
“He’s just sort of given up”, Trump said.
The CNN/ORC poll showed Trump ahead, 44% to 39% in a four-way matchup with Libertarian Gary Johnson (9%) and the Green Party’s Jill Stein (3%).
Arthur Lupia is a political scientist at the University of MI.
But 49-year-old Stephanie Markstein, a Sanders delegate from West Chester, Chester County, said she’s started to see Democrats coalesce around the presumptive nominee.
Ken Bredemeier reported this story for VOA News.
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She added, just to be clear, “We are not Trump supporters”.
