For now, party leaders tried to make Wasserman Schultz’s exit as graceful as possible. The controversy led to party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing on the eve of the convention’s start that she would step down when it ended. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, as her running mate.
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Sanders supporters were already dismayed that Clinton passed over liberal favourites like US Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA to select the more moderate US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice presidential running mate. In light of the emails, many prominent Democrats, including Sanders called for Wasserman Schultz to resign. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) adopted a slogan from the Republican National Convention in their protests against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday: “Lock her up!”
Much of the newly revealed correspondence was routine in nature, showing the typical internal machinations of a major political organization. Protests are expected throughout Philadelphia in support of Sanders.
Allen, who most recently served as America’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, said Monday that he generally keeps out of politics but “given the complexities of issues facing our country today and its longtime allies, I felt compelled to speak up and be heard”.
Regardless, both the national and Wyoming Democratic Party are hoping the national convention will be a unifying event for Democrats behind the Clinton ticket, which now includes Sen. Sanders’ supporters believe Kaine is not liberal enough.
The Vermont senator seemed to indicate that he would continue to assist in the unity effort.
Wasserman Schultz “was never going to be the permanent chairman of the convention”, Frank said Sunday in an interview. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. Branding himself a democratic socialist, Sanders galvanized young and liberal voters with his calls to rein in Wall Street and eradicate income inequality. Bernie Sanders, and seven are for Clinton. And in another email, a Clinton campaign lawyer suggested to the DNC how it should respond to claims from the Sanders campaign that it was improperly using a joint fundraising committee with state parties.
He questioned why Wasserman Schultz was staying on through the convention.
“We arrived here in Philadelphia with the most inclusive and progressive platform the party has ever proposed and a unified recommendation from the Rules Committee on our path forward as Democrats”, the statement said.
The real question is, can Sanders convince his most ardent backers to support Clinton and a Democratic Party after an email scandal that, for many, confirmed their suspicions about party officials and a primary campaign that left many of them disenchanted? Instead, Rep. Marcia Fudge of OH was named permanent chair of the convention while DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election. She will be the first African-American woman to head the party.
Clinton is within just days of her long-held ambition to become the party’s official presidential nominee.
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The nation first learned about Silva in November 2014 when President Obama cited her story of coming to the United States from Mexico when she was 4 in announcing executive orders aimed at protecting millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation – actions that were later blocked by a federal judge, a decision that remains in place after the Supreme Court deadlocked on the matter last month. Wasserman Schultz spoke Saturday at the rally in Miami at which Kaine was introduced. “She, like all of us, we are reading the same reporting that you all are seeing”.
