Afterward, even after Sanders spoke, some could still be heard yelling in the arena concourse, accusing the Democratic Party of election fraud.
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“That struggle continues. And I look forward to being part of that struggle with you”, he said, in a nod to a post-campaign political organization he’s still creating.
Accusing Moscow of interfering in USA presidential elections, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said Russians hacked the party national committee’s computer system and released the emails to help her Republican rival, Donald Trump.
Separating Bill Clinton’s achievements from Hillary Clinton’s record proved hard for her campaign during the primary season, particularly after years of the couple famously marketing themselves as “two for the price of one”. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) than to jeer Bernie Sanders himself.
“Because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”, she said.
The tumult began before the convention opened, as Sanders drew jeers from his own supporters when he urged his delegates to back the White House bid of his former rival, Clinton, and focus on defeating Trump in the November 8 presidential election.
“Our job now is to see that platform implemented by a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House and a Hillary Clinton presidency – and I am going to do everything I can to make that happen”. Warren told the crowd: “I’m with Hillary”. “She stole the election!” someone else shouted. Bernie Sanders takes the stage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley told the conventioneers “we owe enormous debt to Bernie Sanders, and his “bold solutions”. That’s what the corporate media wants. Like most of the night’s speakers, he emphasized the Democrats’ embrace of diversity, and in a passage likely to be quoted widely, he discussed the difference between tolerance and love. Comedian Sarah Silverman, a Sanders supporter, said she would support Clinton “with gusto” and admonished the Sanders fans. “To the “Bernie or bust” people, you’re being ridiculous”.
Sidney Bennett, 59, of Hermitage, another Sanders delegate, said the Clinton campaign “doesn’t really understand” the value that Sanders supporters could bring to her candidacy.
Trump gloated at the Democrats’ opening day disorder.
“Wow, the Republican Convention went so smoothly compared to the Dems total mess”, he wrote on Twitter.
Sanders’ supporters have expressed disgust with party leaders after leaked emails suggested the party brass favored Clinton over the Vermont senator during the hard-fought primary race. His name is Barack Obama, and he went on to become a US senator and then president.
Long after the speakers had headed out and the clatter of plates could be heard as hotel staff were clearing the tables in the massive ballroom, some of the state’s 551 delegates remained to debate about the candidates.
And they pushed the party to put out a statement offering a “deep and sincere” apology to Sanders for the DNC’s apparent favoritism of Clinton, revealed in recently leaked internal emails.
A CNN/ORC opinion poll gave Trump a 48 percent to 45 percent lead over Clinton in a two-way presidential contest. Similar chants were also on display at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland the week prior.
The first outburst erupted even before the opening prayer was finished, when the Rev. Cynthia Hale mentioned the former secretary of state in her invocation – and the Sanders’ delegates booed lustily. On issues of poverty, immigration, environmental protection and more, he said, Clinton’s election counts.
In mid-May emails with Miranda, his deputy Mark Paustenbach questioned whether the DNC should use the voter record furore to raise questions about the Sanders campaign. Republicans dismissed the suggestion as absurd.
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The FBI announced Monday it was investigating how the hack occurred.
