The “Love Trumps Hate” signs and the “Clinton/Kaine” signs were almost outnumbered by the “No TPP” signs being furiously waved by delegates, signs that may just as easily have been proudly displayed by delegates at the Republican convention last week. “Isis: the word you did not hear last night at the convention”.
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Bernie Sanders’ most passionate supporters spent Tuesday morning wrestling with pleas from the presidential candidate for whom they have so much affection to vote for the candidate for whom they have so much contempt.
“Tricky night for him”, Stephanopoulos said.
Some of the hundreds of people enduring the Tuesday’s afternoon sun on another steamy day in Philadelphia are chanting “Bernie or bust”.
On Monday evening, police cited 54 people for disorderly conduct for trying to climb the barriers outside the convention center during a pro-Sanders protest that reflected tensions between the Vermont senator’s supporters and Clinton’s. Going into the convention Tuesday night is a party that couldn’t seem to pull together on its first try. “It was an emotional moment because you put so much of your heart and soul into these races”.
“There’s no reason why Democrats can’t be successful in Kansas”, Sanders said as part of a five-minute speech about turning out to vote for the party. And you know it’s a bit of a transition.
And this morning, I didn’t sense any of that in the breakfasts, and I was going to states where there was a strong Bernie contingent. She acknowledged a segment of Sanders supporters who were “really angry”. “That’s a bad litmus test, if Sarah Silverman gets booed and she’s not even a politician”.
“I think if you read the platform right now, you will understand that the political revolution is alive and kicking”, Warren Gunnels, Sanders’s policy director, told NBC News.
But he said his supporters should take “enormous pride in the historical accomplishments” he and his following achieved.
Liberal favorite Elizabeth Warren, senator from MA, and Sanders himself also gave the party something to cheer about Monday night.
While Sanders spoke, a Wisconsin supporter grumbled that national Democratic Party leaders have not sufficiently apologized to Sanders supporters for leaked emails that show national party officials favoring Clinton during the primary election season. And so the days of the old Democratic National Committee as an exclusive club of the elite are over.
Vermont delegate Arshad Hasan is attending his third national convention. One question of the day was whether Sanders would press for a count by all the states, as his delegates want, or interrupt the process to ask that her nomination be approved by acclamation.
“One, we have to defeat Donald Trump”.
“We’ve had fathers and sons as presidents, but we’ve never before had a husband and then a wife as president, and I think just by getting up there and being comfortable with it, I think he can help Americans be comfortable with it”, he continued. “The goal for the Democratic Party is to make sure Trump and that philosophy has no place in this country – ever”.
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The convention debuted Monday to a bumpy start when party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced expedite her resignation due to an email scandal indicating possible party efforts to undercut Sanders’ candidacy. After all, in 2012, commentators called Clinton the greatest pitchman for President Barack Obama’s reelection.
