Cushing said he didn’t receive word that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz would resign as chair over the content of the leaked emails until after he arrived in Philadelphia.
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Mrs Clinton (68), a former secretary of state, and Mr Sanders (74), an independent U.S. senator from Vermont who ran for president as a Democrat, waged a heated months-long battle for the nomination. News Center 7’s Jim Otte was in the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday scoping out the logistics and said that the floor is mostly taken up with delegates from Hillary Clinton’s three home states – Illinois, where she was born, Arkansas, where she was first lady, and NY, where she lives. Party officials decided Saturday that Wasserman Schultz will not have a major speaking role or preside over daily convention proceedings this week – but she will speak at a previously scheduled Florida delegation breakfast Monday morning, FDP spokesman Max Steele said Sunday afternoon.
“I am grateful to Debbie for getting the Democratic Party to this year’s historic convention in Philadelphia, and I know that this week’s events will be a success thanks to her hard work and leadership”, Clinton said in a statement, according to CNN. “Sanders’ religious beliefs as a way to gain political favor angers me”, said state Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton.
“The party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people”, Sanders said.
The Democratic National Convention was set to kick off Monday as a week of optimistic celebration with high-powered elected officials and celebrities re-introducing Clinton to a general election audience.
DNC vice chairwoman Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election, the DNC said on Twitter. “It would be remarkable to have the first Hispanic Chair of the Democratic National Committee”.
Republican nominee Donald Trump, meanwhile, blasted Wasserman Schultz as “overrated” and contrasted her with his party’s chairman, Reince Priebus, calling the Wisconsin Republican “the tough one and the smart one”. “He is a very nice guy”, Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. And I think, because I have said a long time ago, that the time is now for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step aside, not only for these issues.
Her exit, coming after Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, still isn’t coming soon enough for some critics.
Last week, Wikileaks released thousands of emails from within the Democratic National Committee. Broad is the main north-south artery that leads from downtown to the convention site at the Wells Fargo Center about 4 miles away.
President Obama released a statement Sunday commenting positively on Wasserman Schultz’s tenure as head of the DNC, but sidestepping any mention of the controversy surrounding her resignation.
Here’s what Sanders tells ABC’s “This Week”: “I’m not shocked, but I am disappointed”. Some carried signs like, “Bernie would end fracking, ” and the now defunct “Bernie for President”.
The Clinton team worked to portray their party’s convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
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Hillary Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine are planning a bus tour through Pennsylvania and OH after the Democratic National Convention. Timothy M. Kaine (Va.), saying that Clinton and Kaine are career politicians “who have been a part of government most of their lives”.
