Although Brazile has contributed to presidential bids by Jesse Jackson, Walter Mondale and Dick Gephardt, she is noted as being the first African-American to run a presidential campaign, for then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000.
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The crowd chanted, screamed, and booed, forcing the chairwoman to urge the delegation to silence so she could explain her decision.
Sanders delegates told The Daily Caller Monday they felt further betrayed by Clinton after she hired the now former DNC chair. Laning said the party’s focus now can shift to electing “progressive Democrats all the way down the ticket”. “We are all in this together and we will all have a voice in the Clinton administration”.
But the scene showed Democrats, like Republicans last week, have their own discord to deal with as the convention gets under way. The crowd would not be appeased, and the coordinator pushed Wasserman Schultz aside to pound the gavel and demand order from the room.
The release of thousands of embarrassing internal email exchanges between Democratic Party officials threatens to overshadow the party’s message of unity on the eve of the party’s convention in Philadelphia.
The DNC has not yet made a statement concerning the impending legal complaint.
When an outsider threatened to take over a political party and lead it to ruin, at least party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz did something about it.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, a co-chair of the convention whose emails were also caught up in the leak, said that she apologized to Sanders’ campaign for the revelations. “I support Debbie, I like her, she’s a very good person”.
“Everybody is going to take a second look at that, I think”, said Nassau County Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs, a DNC member and strong Hillary Clinton supporter. He said people should not jump to conclusions. Neither one said who they would choose.
Speaking to his convention delegates, just hours before the Democrats opened a convention to nominate his primary rival, the Vermont senator tried to settle roiling tensions between his supporters and the party rank-and-file lining up behind Clinton.
The protesters were largely indignant supporters of Sen.
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“I think it’s a problem people are upset about, of course, because there are lots of people here who voted for Bernie Sanders knowing he was running in a primary that wasn’t run fairly”, he said, adding, “There wasn’t enough debates, cutting off his access to the data base, and now we see the truth of it. The WikiLeaks confirms what we thought all along”, said Perry Mitchell, a 32-year-old Maryland who came to Philadelphia to participate in protests.
