The emails cover the time period between January 2015 and May 25 of this year. They are part of Wikileaks’ “Hillary Leaks” initiative.
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In one disturbing email dated May 5, 2016 with the subject line “No s-t”, the chief financial officer of the Democratic National Committee, Brad Marshall, plotted how to try to portray Sanders, who is Jewish, as an atheist. “He had (sic) skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage”.
“Does he believe in a God.” the email reads.
“This could make several [percentage] points difference”, Marshall continued.
According to The Hill, hacker Gucifer 2.0 passed a ton of emails to Wikileaks. “My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and atheist”.
Sanders plans an aggressive effort to extract platform concessions on key policies that could prompt divisive battles at a moment when front-runner Hillary Clinton will be trying to unify the party.
It is also unclear why the Democratic National Committee, which isn’t supposed to favor one Democratic candidate over another until they receive a nomination, would have attempted to subvert the Sanders campaign on the grounds that “he is an atheist”.
In that primary, the Sanders campaign cried foul, accusing state party leaders of rigging the process and disqualifying delegates who supported Sanders.
Wasserman Schultz said she wasn’t confident that a meeting with the anchor would go well.
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“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess”, wrote DNC deputy communications director Mark Paustenbach to DNC communications director Luis Miranda, in response to backlash over DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz shutting off the Sanders campaign’s access to voter database files.
