He urged Sanders supporters to stay engaged and come together to support Clinton in November. Some gathered around a radio to hear what was happening inside the hall, and when Clinton’s name was placed in nomination, a chant of “Nominate Sanders!” went up.
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Sanders delegates are upset by presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton’s decision to pick the centrist Sen.
One protester is 64-year-old Talat Khan, of San Bernardino, California.
The combustible nature of the convention was on full display Tuesday. In a crowd-control measure that was also used the night before, only passengers with media or convention credentials were allowed to ride all the way to the Wells Fargo Center. Brown insisted that he would represent his Sanders-supporting voters, but Ruhle pressed on by saying that Clinton is mathematically determined to be the nominee, and that it was “pretty disrespectful” to protest last night in the middle of the DNC’s convention prayer.
“I wish he would continue fighting”, said Sanders supporter Nick Vaidyanathan at a rally Tuesday in Philadelphia. Elizabeth Warren did not persuade him to support Clinton.
“People should really get ready for a show tonight because we’re going to have President Clinton talk about the Hillary that he knows”, Kristina Schake, a spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton, told CNN.
“It is easy to boo, but it’s harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under a Donald Trump presidency”, he said at a a breakfast event Tuesday.
This year, the Clinton campaign and the candidate herself appeared determined to apply the lessons from her defeat eight years ago to her second White House bid, running a notably different campaign.
As Scully spoke, a passer-by called out: “That’s a vote for Trump!” The marchers planned to link up with the “Bernie of bust” demonstrators.
He referenced both the killings of police and the killing of black men by police officers. But does she want the job? She lost to Obama in 2008 and had to fight to vanquish the upstart challenge from Sanders, despite entering the race as the prohibitive favorite with overwhelming establishment support in the party.
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Victoria Thompson, 56, a Sanders delegate from Citrus Heights, outside Sacramento, welcomed Sanders’ visit but said she was not moved to overcome her resistance to Clinton. Police estimated 5,500 people took part in the convention’s opening-day protests around the city.
