It’s far from inspiring, but that’s why 67-year-old Maria Mengel, who’s from the Philadelphia suburb of King of Prussia, said she’s backing Clinton over Republican Donald Trump.
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McArthur said he’s seeing Sanders supports choose Green Party candidate Jill Stein over Clinton.
Over the course of the survey period, 44% of Democratic voters changed their minds at least once.
Sanders visited delegations on Tuesday morning including those from New York, California, Kansas, Wisconsin and Alaska among others.
Most Bernie supporters can at least foresee a world where they would rather vote for Clinton than not vote at all.
And while Sanders supporters are glad that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign over the scandal, Clinton’s decision to immediately gave her a position as an “honorary chair” of her campaign was seen as yet another sign of a “rigged system”. The “Bernie or Bust” movement may be passionate and loud, but it can claim only one in 10 Sanders supporters, and a small minority of Democratic voters as a whole.
There was one non-candidate that all the delegates could agree on: First Lady Michelle Obama, who delivered a well-received address to the convention Monday night. That led some Democrats to think, perhaps wishfully, that the storm has passed.
“I chose not to pass that information along to my fellow New Mexico Bernie delegates”, said Teva Gabis-Levine, a Sanders delegate whip from New Mexico who received instructions from Sanders. Under the Clinton team’s latest plan, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Congressman John Lewis, and Na’ilah Amaru, the victor of a campaign contest, will officially nominate Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee for president, and three other another speakers will nominate Sen. “And so I think this is going to be a banner year”.
“The most hard thing Hillary Clinton has to deal with right now is her hard relationship with the truth”, says Bernstein, author of “A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton”. And because it targets the blue-collar workers who blame the very trade and immigration policies the Clintons used to champion, Hillary Clinton is especially vulnerable in a campaign that seems – from the couple’s longstanding cozy relationship with Wall Street to her use of a private email server – to underline her vulnerabilities. Only 8 percent support Donald Trump, and the remaining 2 percent are undecided. I am asking all of us to bear that in mind while we are on the floor of the convention.
“Everyone understands we have something really important to do in Wisconsin and people are pulling together, so the unity on the ground is really remarkable”, Baldwin said.
On Monday evening, 54 people were cited for disorderly conduct for trying to climb the barricades outside the convention center during a pro-Sanders demonstration.
In the rubble of the RNC Cleveland Witch Trials, it’s clear that certain people in Washington would burn her alive if they thought they could get away with it.
Some Sanders delegates listened to the senator’s keynote speech – which recapped his calls to action and the highlights of his campaign stump speeches, and touted the progressive Democratic platform that he helped influence – with tears streaming down their faces.
She is generally not trusted, and the majority of Americans tend to repeat what has now become a cliché invented by President Obama: Clinton just doesn’t have that new-car smell.
“And 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”.
Speakers at the rally charged that Clinton cheated her way to the nomination with the complicity of the “corporate media”.
Again, if she doesn’t get this balance right, she’ll look out of touch and push people toward Trump, who theoretically could hold himself out as a credible businessman, job creator and one-man economic engine.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Author Rebecca Traister describes Clinton’s college years as a political transformation, from her roots in this conservative Chicago suburb.
