It’s become a bit easier for Hillary Clinton to formally claim the nomination at the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
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Senator Tim Kaine, center, with his wife Anne Holton, answers questions after attending Mass at their church, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, in Richmond, Va., July 24, 2016. Long a controversial figure, she found herself with little support from the Clinton campaign or the White House over the weekend, and by Sunday afternoon, announced she would resign. The correspondence, posted by WikiLeaks over the weekend, showed top officials at the supposedly neutral DNC favoring Clinton over Sanders in the presidential primaries.
“I don’t think she is qualified to be the chair of the DNC, not only for these terrible emails, which revealed the prejudice of the DNC, but also because we need a party that reaches out to working people and young people, and I don’t think her leadership style is doing that”, Sanders said on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. He’s also expressed eagerness to pull out of longstanding treaties, like the NAFTA trade pact, and praised autocratic leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Clinton’s campaign believes voters like Clinton more when she’s serving in office than when she’s campaigning, a view they say is intertwined with the scandals of her husband’s administration, years of relentless GOP attacks and how Americans view female candidates. Trump declared on Twitter: “The Dems Convention is cracking up”.
At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme.
One of the issues that has been hard for Clinton to shake is that of her private email server – she promised it wouldn’t be a mistake she’d make twice.
In the interview, Clinton was asked what she calls Trump, in response to his moniker for her: “Crooked Hillary”.
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For Clinton, it was a turbulent start to a historic four-day gathering that will culminate in the nomination of the first woman to lead a major USA political party. He is set to address the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. That replacement can then run in the special election, held in conjunction with Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial race, to serve out the rest of Kaine’s term, which takes us up to the 2018 midterms.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Sanders, said there is talk among Sanders’ delegates of walking out during Kaine’s acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest.
Sanders endorsed Clinton two weeks ago after pressing for the party platform to include a $15-an-hour minimum wage, debt-free college and an expansion of access to health care.
Liberal Sanders supporters pushed for changes to the party nominating process at a meeting of the party rules committee Saturday.
It also sapped some of her energy coming out of Republican Donald Trump’s chaotic convention last week and the well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate, Virginia Sen.
How the emails were stolen hasn’t been confirmed.
For Democrats who spent last week throwing stones at Republicans’ troubled convention in Cleveland, the scene was a painful reminder of their own glass house.
Linda Groverman, 62, of Blue Bell, said she’d vote for Clinton, but quickly noted the former secretary of state was far from her first choice.
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“The only reason they’re not the nominee is because the superdelegates, who are the establishment elected officials from the Democratic Party, had been fixed against them from the beginning”.
