Washington Democrats end convention with last delegate picks

Sanders “Medicare for all” plan seems even less likely now that hes all but out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but theres a way that he and Hillary Clinton could still find common ground on government-sponsored health care.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Democrats wrapped up the final day of their state convention Sunday, selecting the final 34 national delegates and eight alternates to the Democratic National Convention.

“After the convention, I’m going to look to volunteer for the nominee which will probably of course be Hillary Clinton”, Zukor said.

Clinton is among the most widely despised candidates of a major party in United States history, the personification of corruption and nepotism. Indeed, there really is a true progressive, anti-corporatist woman candidate on the ballot, and she is representing the Green Party.

Some of Sanders’ Democratic surrogates did show up, like U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Nina Turner, a former OH state senator who delivered a fiery speech urging people not to allow the party to return to “business as usual”. “I am very proud that I was a Goldwater girl”. Ron Wyden, said Sanders was “very constructive and very supportive” in getting it into law. The affinity of broad sections of American workers and youth for socialism, combined with widespread hatred for Clinton-seen by millions as a war-monger, Wall Street lackey and pillar of the status quo-produced a major political crisis for the Clinton campaign, almost derailing her planned coronation. The convention has not happened. I think it’s about this country and the people of this country as a whole.

When asked whether she will change her mind ahead of November, DeVillier says she is not sure. “I want to see who actually ends up on the ballot before I make that decision”, she said.

Sanders did not attend, though “Bernie 2016” hats, buttons and pins were easy to spot, and songs from the senator’s rallies, like Simon and Garfunkel’s “America”, blasted through speakers.

Virginia Ramos Rios, 44, who was a Sanders field organizer in California and NY, said it would be a “hard pill to swallow”. “I feel like we are being threatened with the boogeyman of the dream state and not confronting the actual difficulty that we have in front of us, which is we are being ruled by an oligarchy”. “The name Clinton has a lot to do with it”, he said. Each candidate was allocated one alternate. Sanders, who won the caucuses, will have 74 delegates from Washington state at the national convention in Philadelphia in July. Clinton dominated the superdelegates while Sanders greatly benefited from the caucuses.

Welker described how the Secret Service is still protecting Sanders because he remains a presidential candidate, surrounding the senator as he walks through Capitol Hill and even installing a small watch station outside his home.

The California Democratic Party signaled that they hoped the reforms could be implemented as soon as the 2020 Democratic primary process.