“Her resignation opens up the possibility of new leadership at the top of the Democratic Party that will stand with working people and that will open the doors of the party to those people who want real change”, Sanders said.
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Nathan Gonzales, who analyzes House races for the non-partisan Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report, said Tuesday that Wasserman Schultz’s recent travails “raise the natural question” about whether she could lose her primary- or general-election race.
At the same event, though, it became clear that the divisions within the party caused by the spirited primary between Clinton and Sanders linger.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday said that were it up to him, Wasserman Schultz would not address the convention.
“This election and every election is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives”, she said. “Once these emails came out, I get that the impression it stoked, I understand why the Clinton campaign and the president moved the way they did to clean the situation up”.
“The Wikileaks emails indicate that Debbie Wasserman Schultz used DNC resources to assist her reelection campaign in violation of federal law”. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was met by a mix of boos and cheers at a breakfast with delegates from her home state of Florida.
Sensing an opening, Trump sent out a flurry of tweets criticizing Sanders for shifting his support to Clinton – and urging Sanders supporters to “fight”.
She will not preside over the convention as its permanent chairman.
Some Sanders delegates feel the Clinton campaign is not taking their policy concerns seriously.
Others said Sanders was simply pushing them to consider the long-term implications.
In sweltering heat for the second day in a row, hundreds of Sanders supporters rallied Monday in Philadelphia. Trump has said he was being sarcastic. The palpable disorganization in Cleveland struck me as eminently avoidable, and probably the product of inexperienced and overmatched Trump operatives who could not effectively manage the army of RNC staff and volunteers who looked to them for direction. “No plans to make anything great for anyone except rich guys like Donald Trump”.
However, Smith thinks Wasserman Schultz’s political capital will help her prevail. She doesn’t get it. “I just think it’s wrong for her and it’s wrong for us”.
The meeting was held shortly before Monday’s start of the party’s convention.
The emails just point out what so many of us believed, that the process was rigged for Hillary Clinton, “said Joe Kaufman, one of two Republican primary candidates in Wasserman Schultz’s Congressional District”. “He’s doing it the Bernie Sanders way”, he said.
But in Philadelphia, Delegates waved “Love Trumps Hate” signs and cheered as immigration supporters, gay rights advocates, and labor leaders took the stage.
Amos Miers, 39, of St. Petersburg, Florida, expressed frustration that Sanders didn’t elaborate on why they should support Clinton. “And a vital part of that movement is making absolutely sure Hillary Clinton is our next president of the United States”. The tone was a sharp contrast to the Republican convention, where the attacks against Clinton was bitingly personal, including chants of “Lock her up”.
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The appearance came less than 24 hours after Wasserman Schultz announced she would step down as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee at the conclusion of this week’s convention.
