Clinton campaign officials pointed the finger at Russian military intelligence agencies.
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Podesta said on MSNBC Monday that there’s, “a kind of bromance going on between Putin and Trump which is distinct from this leak”. Trump has spoken favorably of Putin as someone he could negotiate with, producing better relations between the US and its former Cold War adversary.
“He’s just sort of given up”, Trump said. Of the approximately 713 superdelegates, some 604 are known Clinton supporters, with just 47 supporting Sanders.
Democrats are also trying to overcome anger from Sanders supporters over leaked emails indicating staffers at the Democratic National Committee favored Clinton over Sanders.
“Nobody’s running out and getting Hillary Clinton tattoos or anything like that”, Williams said, referring to Clinton as a plan B who is better than Trump.
Netherton said she couldn’t support Clinton even if Sanders asked her.
There were chants of “Hell No, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” and “This is what democracy looks like”.
About 5,000 party delegates are among the 50,000 people expected to attend the four-day convention, which will end on Thursday with Mrs Clinton formally accepting the nomination for president. “We’ve dealt with the issue”.
Sanders takes the stage Monday evening, and the crowd’s response could get heated. She did the right thing.
Ahead of her speech, she secured endorsement of retired Gen. John Allen, former deputy commander of U. S. Central Command and a former commander of the International Security Assistance Force, overseeing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan.
Another participant in the bridge march, Deborah Armstrong, of Spokane, Washington, said she and her husband went bankrupt because of his health problems, which required a heart transplant. “We’ve worked hard as a movement. You don’t like to see anyone have to go through this”.
Sanders has urged his supporters to back Clinton in her White House bid, drawing jeers and shouts of “We want Bernie” in a show of discord as the party kicked off its national convention. Fallon left open the possibility that the person could face “further action”.
“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention”.
Democrats gathering for the national convention aim to seek party unity to nominate Clinton as their standard-bearer in a general election to fight Donald Trump, who has won the Republican presidential nomination last week in Cleveland, the state of Ohio.
Trump dismissed the suggestion in a tweet: “The joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC emails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”.
He also tried to rally his supporters to “defeat Trump, the worst presidential candidate in the modern history of our country”.
Media captionWhat’s the point of a party convention anyway?
And while the speech offered some praise of Clinton (he said she’d make “an outstanding president”), Sanders didn’t stop there.
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was booed during a Florida delegation breakfast.
“I’m with Bernie. I’m following his lead”. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals and one of the party’s toughest critics of Republican Donald Trump. Sanders is scheduled to speak Monday night, as are First Lady Michelle Obama and Massachusetts Sen.
After months of complaints from Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who finished second in the Democratic primary.
Sanders will notably deliver the night’s closing address.
The platform, which amounts to an assembled policy statement but is unenforceable on the party’s nominee, includes numerous agenda sought by the supporters of Sanders, Clinton’s bitter challenger in a bruising primary season. Now Hillary Clinton has an unforeseen hurdle of her own to clear during the Democratic National Convention, stemming from the last thing on Earth she probably saw coming: another email scandal.
A Bernie Sanders supporter holds up a sign call calling for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be fired.
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Having created a campaign that galvanized millions of voters, Sanders has been given a prominent say in writing the party platform in a move party leaders hoped would soothe the bitter split in the Democratic Party. Will she acknowledge or disavow the DNC’s favoritism?
