“I think Raymond has been quite fair”, Cohen said. But to all of our supporters, here and around the country, I hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved. Together my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America. Trump said: “We always have to be prepared to walk”, and noted that this didn’t just apply to Japan but to Germany and Saudi Arabia as well.
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“Her resignation opens up the possibility of new leadership at the top of the Democratic Party”, he said. “We will make history and elect the first woman president of the United States”.
Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence, are holding their first campaign event since the GOP convention. “The choice is not even close”.
“I look forward”, he said, “to your votes during the roll call tomorrow night”. As the DNC kicked off on Monday, Sanders fans were heard booing and heckling several pro-Clinton speakers on the convention floor.
As Sanders’ supporters marched 4 miles from City Hall to the convention site Monday afternoon, they chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!” and carried signs reading, “Never Hillary”, “Just Go to Jail Hillary” and “You Lost Me at Hillary”.
After she resigned as chairman, Clinton named Wasserman Schultz an honorary chair of her campaign’s 50-state program.
“Our credibility as a movement will be damaged by boos, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays”, he wrote. “That’s what the corporate media wants”. She took numerous swipes at Republican Donald Trump, all without mentioning his name. But that’s not what will expand the progressive movement in this country.
Comedian Sarah Silverman, a Sanders supporter, was more direct.
Ayotte spokesman Liz Johnson said Hassan was “skipping town again to hobnob with Hillary Clinton and the Washington special interests that are backing her campaign”.
Sanders delegate Gian Carlo Espinosa, 29, of Key West, Florida, said he would not abandon protests, as Sanders urged.
About 100 Sanders supporters made their way into Philadelphia by marching across the Ben Franklin Bridge from Camden, New Jersey, chanting, “We are the 99 per cent”.
Bernie Sanders sent a firm message to his supporters who are in Philadelphia for the 2016 Democratic National Convention: “Do not protest”.
And while the party is trending toward more progressive ideas, Ziegler said, “I have to remind myself, as a progressive, while our party is shifting in my direction, it’s not there yet”.
Yet many die-hard backers of Sanders they weren’t ready to coalesce around Clinton’s presidential bid despite his pleas.
Trump claims Wasserman Schultz “worked very hard to rig the system” in Clinton’s favor. “No surprise there”, he said.
President Bill Clinton, watching from the audience, leapt to his feet and applauded, as did most of the delegates filling the convention arena.
Franken asked the crowd of delegates if they knew that “Trump University’s School of Ripping People Off is ranked second in the nation, right behind Bernie Madoff University?”
Oh, there is that: Sanders finally got his wish that DNC Chairwoman and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., step down from her post, an exit that spared the party the ugly spectacle of Wasserman Schultz being booed in the opening moments of a convention.
And who did the DNC choose to replace her? “They’ve made zero effort to reach out to us”.
Trump in the White House would “be so insane”, acknowledged Sanders supporter Marie Adams, 66, of Boulder, Colorado. “If the party is serious … we need a change of leadership”.
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Even Bernie Sanders himself could not contain the disappointment and anger of his supporters. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, accused Hassan, her Democratic challenger, of trying to “stamp out the will of voters”, because Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, 60 percent to Clinton’s 37 percent.
