“We believe that we will have the representation on the platform drafting committee to create a Democratic platform that reflects the views of millions of our supporters. and not just Wall Street, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry and other powerful special interests”, he said.
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“Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a career politician”, Canova, who teaches at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, said on MSNBC Monday, arguing her ties to the Democratic Party elites have blinded her on liberal positions, from criminal justice reform to the economy.
Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said Clinton will compete hard in the remaining primary states, particularly California, while also turning her attention to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
The 15-member drafting committee will decide the platform presented to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.
The Clinton campaign said it was pleased to see Mr Sanders represented, describing the party as a “big tent”. “But everything – that’s what democracy is all about”, Sanders said. Their anger came to a boil following Wasserman Schultz’s call for Sanders to control his supporters after a Nevada crowd booed California Sen.
Wasserman Schultz, though, responded to Sanders’ intervention by saying she remains neutral in the Democratic presidential primary and is confident about her own chances.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, who will chair the committee, was named by Wasserman Schultz.
Among the six Clinton backers is Wendy Sherman, the former deputy secretary of state who was a lead negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks. The DNC and Sanders’s campaign reached a compromise after weeks of negotiations, the Washington Post reported.
Wasserman Schultz, a Weston Democrat, announced Tuesday she has received enough verified signatures to qualify for re-election in Congressional District 23. When you give numbers like her winning reelection over 60 percent of the vote, this is a very safely Democratic district, like numerous districts in this country that have been gerrymandered.
Weaver told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota there’s no concern that Sanders supporters will misinterpret “get messy” as advocating aggression; they know that it means heated debate.
In a survey conducted for the American National Election Studies in late January, supporters of Mr. Sanders.were less likely than Mrs. Clinton’s supporters to favor concrete policies that Mr. Sanders has offered.including a higher minimum wage, increasing government spending on health care and an expansion of government services financed by higher taxes.
Sanders says he will “fight to win this nomination” and David “can have a job, guaranteed, good pay, four years”.
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“We don’t want to make this look like a vendetta, even though there’s no doubt the banks have been responsible for a tremendous amount of pain”, Dean said.
