With humidity, it will feel more like 105 degrees.
Advertisement
Sanders complained bitterly during the primary process that the party leadership was working against him. “And now, they’re looking around and saying oh my God, Trump could be president”.
“It’s slightly unique for Clinton and Trump because they’re incredibly well-known”, Pfeiffer said. But he doubts whether Sanders’ pitch – if not Clinton, then it’s Trump – would effectively sway many of his supporters.
“We have to make sure that we move forward together in a unified way”, Wasserman Schultz said during brief remarks.
The furore was a blow to a party keen on projecting stability in contrast to the volatility of Republican candidate Donald Trump, who was formally nominated at a raucous convention in Cleveland last week. Sanders has endorsed Clinton and has said he will do whatever is necessary to defeat Trump. Bernie Sanders has a warning for some of the candidate’s more boisterous supporters in Philadelphia. “Now the question looms over us here in Philadelphia: Why not immediately?”
They plan to meet up with a rally at Philadelphia’s City Hall.
But the summer heat wave is even worse here than it was in northeastern Ohio.
Danny Glover has told the Democratic National Convention’s black caucus that it’s important to push for “transformative change” and “listen to new voices that demand speaking truth to power”.
Mook also pointed to reports that Russian state actors breached the Democratic National Committee’s servers and leaked the e-mails with the goal of helping Donald Trump.
Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, New Jersey Sen.
DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election.
Brazile says Bernie Sanders will “point the way forward” in his convention speech Monday night.
Clinton escaped one potentially ugly moment when outgoing party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would not take the stage.
“I think every delegate should follow Senator Sanders’ request”, Adams said.
For Sanders’ supporters, it was a high-profile victory.
Organizer Gary Frazier says if the crowd is big enough, they’ll try to shut down traffic on the bridge.
A majority of Sanders delegates surveyed in a straw poll said they want to protest the nominations of both Clinton and Kaine on the floor, said Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate from California and national coordinator of the independent “Bernie Delegates Network”.
In a brief phone conversation with the Sun Sentinel earlier, she said she wouldn’t gavel her party’s national convention to order.
Members of Equality Coalition, which supports the beliefs of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, are arranging to have hundreds of spray bottles filled with water to hand out to protesters. When the Sanders campaign demanded her scalp, in response to the thoroughly unsurprising revelation that her office had pondered backstage strategies to help Clinton, the Clinton team was suspiciously happy to oblige. Monday was the first day voters could cast in-person absentee ballots for the August 9 primary. Kaine began his speech with a message about inclusion — in Spanish. She will have to counter the stream of attacks that Trump and his surrogates threw her way at last week’s GOP convention, and at the same time, make a fresh appeal to the large swath of the Democratic base that rejected her during the primaries and independent voters yet to pick a side.
Advertisement
“Settle down, everybody”, she attempted as the meeting got underway.
