In Tuesday’s prime-time address he will be capping a day Democrats want to use to showcase Hillary Clinton’s achievements on issues such as women and families, health care and as a former secretary of state. “That is just who she is. there are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. but we will not get to them if america makes the wrong choice in this election”.
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The plan involves the Vermont delegation formally asking for the convention to accept Clinton’s nomination unanimously and by acclimation – at the end of the roll call vote of all 50 states. Still, party leaders think these are growing pains they’ll move past in time for election day.
More than 1,800 delegates are pledged to Sanders, and he told them Monday night, “I look forward to your votes during the roll call”. Trump made his latest appeal Monday night after Sanders’ endorsement of Clinton and call for party unity to defeat Trump.
“I have no doubt that a Trump presidency is more unsafe”, Sanders supporter Dorothea Graham said.
Sanders and his team sought to temper that behavior, sending out messages to his delegates and meeting with state delegations to encourage them not to protest her nomination Tuesday night.
Even though Sanders has endorsed Clinton, some of his supporters are still not prepared to stop backing their man, arguing that the primaries were skewed in Clinton’s favour.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., nominates Hillary Clinton for President of the United States during the Democratic National Convention.
But the convention belonged to Clinton, who will take on Republican Donald Trump in November.
Hillary Clinton, 68, will be watching him speak from their home in Chappaqua, New York, campaign officials said. In contrast, Trump was not booed once at the Republican convention.
Throughout the primary campaign, Sanders had accused the DNC of being in the tank of his rival, Clinton.
In a statement, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the best way for the party to accomplish its goal of putting Clinton in the White House was for her to step aside after the convention.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately comment on the nomination. But for most of us who aren’t white, or straight, or living in liberal enclaves, for the black women in that overheated arena in Philadelphia, the impact would be unbearable. The crowd chanted: “Power to the people!”
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Kaine spent Tuesday morning at a diner in Richmond before heading to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
