Bernie Sanders tried to calm tensions among his delegates Monday at the Democratic National Convention but some weren’t in a listening mood, seething over a lengthy primary campaign and a damaging email disclosure. It also came hours after Sanders loyalists heckled Wasserman Schultz at a Florida delegation breakfast – her first appearance since her decision to step down following the release of hacked Democratic Party emails.
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It is unclear how many of Bernie supporters will defect since the Vermont senator is still backing Hillary Clinton.
Cybersecurity experts who initially responded to the DNC hack identified two distinct groups of hackers operating in the system – one who had exclusively gone after the party’s opposition research file on Donald Trump, and one that had been snooping on DNC emails for about a year.
“We want to see what we can do to make this country a better place”.
Bernie Sanders drew boos and angry chants from his delegates as he urged Hillary Clinton’s election.
“I thanked President Obama for the honor of serving as the chair of the Democratic National Committee”, Wasserman Shultz said, “and being able to watch his back and bring him across the finish line in 2012, which we did on the shoulders of Florida’s voters”.
Many of his supporters frustrated by the primary process and the recent leaked emails from Democratic party officials, have been threatening protests at the DNC. “We’re not going to get steamrolled”. How do we build on our successes?
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The vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee took to the podium Monday morning to apologize for an email scandal threatening to undermine the unity of the party during its convention in Philadelphia this week.
Pelosi’s speech to California delegation was interrupted and had a “Bernie” sign thrust in her face, Roll Call reported.
Weaver told The Hill on Monday that he wasn’t surprised about the revelations of Wasserman Schultz’s bias against the Sanders campaign, but he said it was time to move on. The congresswoman promptly left the room with her security detail. Elizabeth Warren and Ohio Sen. “What we’ve been saying for months is obviously true: they had the finger on the scale of the campaign”, he said.
Trump tells supporters in Roanoke, Virginia, that Clinton’s “disloyalty was incredible” for allowing Wasserman Schultz to be pushed out.
How do we know this is the work of Russian Federation? “It does appear that whoever is doing this is trying to influence how our convention is reported on”. “Trump has made bigotry and hatred the cornerstone of his campaign”.
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“The new joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC emails, which should have never been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”, Trump wrote as part of a series of Tweets. The post will be temporarily held by Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile. About 200 pro-Sanders protesters gathered to support their candidate, expressing anger about the leaked emails.
