But hostility is being heard even as history is being made.
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Republicans saw last week that their party has been taken over by Donald Trump, the real estate impresario whose improbable campaign defeated more than a dozen candidates who, in more normal times, could have found success. For some minutes thereafter, booing followed every mention of the presumptive nominee.
Sanders supporters had a variety chants, including “Election Fraud”, “This is not what democracy looks like”, and “Wikileaks!” Speakers on the first night sought to unify the party and highlight differences with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“Now it’s inevitable that it will be Hillary, and we need to move forward”, said Matthew Lewandowski, a Bernie Sanders delegate from Arizona. She was among those at an afternoon rally of around 1,900 in Philadelphia Monday who participated in a chorus of boos when the Vermont senator praised Clinton. “So hopefully we are making progress on the issues”, Stephen Spitz, a Virginia delegate, said. Several national polls showed him surging into the lead over Clinton by as many as 5 points.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who is running for a Senate seat, said Hillary Clinton has already promised a “course correction” on the policies of her husband that have become unpopular, including on criminal justice.
“We feel tremendously optimistic”.
Bill Clinton takes center stage Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, tasked with reassuring the faithful that his wife Hillary is the candidate best suited to stop Donald Trump in November.
“The choice is not even close”, he said.
Sanders outlined the difference between Trump and Democrats, noting his party’s support for raising the minimum wage and other staples of the left.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion”, which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers it said are bent on helping Trump. And it got messier still when Silverman and Franken were forced to “stretch”-industry parlance for ad libbing necessitated by something, somewhere getting screwed up”. But she said she understands why some did, likening their expression to an opportunity to provide catharsis for the contentious race or booing the coach of an opposing football team.
She’s among the Sanders supporters who say she will vote for Clinton in the general election.
She also predicted that the majority of her fellow Sanders supporters would eventually back Clinton as well.
Indeed, the Vermonter whose insurgent campaign tapped into latent frustration with America’s political system, is now finding that many of those he inspired are unwilling to fall into line.
On the screens above the arena floor, an image appeared of a Sanders supporter’s eyes welling with tears. McCaskill says this week’s convention will focus on Clinton’s long career and help people see “beyond the 30-second soundbites that are put out by the Republican attack machine”. She later added, “We are all Democrats!” So does Clinton’s appointment of Wasserman Schultz as honorary chairwoman of her campaign’s 50-state program to elect Democrats.
“It was pretty raucous, but it was expected”, Mancini said.
That more fiscally conservative approach stands in contrast to some of Hillary Clinton’s goals, such as a proposed debt-free college tuition plan for public university students.
Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua that it is hard to see Sanders’ supporters voting for Trump, given his controversial attitudes toward women and minorities as Trump has compared Mexicans to rapists and called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.x Instead, the greater risk to Clinton is those voters who will not vote or will cast a ballot for Stein, if that happens in large numbers.
“We’ll get through this and come out the other side and be united”, she said.
Michael Sparks was so revolted by the idea of seeing Bernie Sanders endorse Hillary Clinton two weeks ago that he had to go to the gym to watch the speech.
And yet wounds are evident. They did the same to AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka and Adriano Espaillat, who hopes to be the first former undocumented immigrant to win a seat in Congress. “But I’m hoping that as the convention continues, we’ll come to a place of unity”. “This right now, is the greatest country on earth”, she said.
He took the stage to deafening applause as he wove Clinton into his stump speech, suggesting she fights for the same issues as he and his movement.
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“I felt as I had been punched in the stomach, and wanted to burst out crying”, Taylor said. “I’m not going to have Trump held up to our head like a gun”.
