Larry Sanders chides Clinton campaign for ‘stupid’ treatment of his brother

Following the Republican convention that featured charges of plagiarism, party disunity, and appeared dark and foreboding, Democrats hoped to show the nation a unified party.

While they fell short electorally – trailing Clinton in both the popular vote and in pledged delegates – Sanders ticked off their successes and the way in which they had influenced the Democratic Party platform, including supporting a $15 minimum wage and to stop trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Amid lingering angst over the primary process, Bernie Sanders has a chance to encourage his supporters to embrace party unity. They are anxious that the moderate will sway Clinton to change her mind on issues important to progressive liberals such as climate change and college tuition.

A Pew Research Center poll that was published earlier this month found that of the people who voted for Sanders in the primary election, 85 percent are planning to vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election, 9 percent for Donald Trump, and the remaining 6 percent were either for a third-party candidate or were undecided.

“In a separate interview with Chuck Todd that also aired Sunday afternoon, Sanders responded to the WikiLeaks dump by saying that the findings [do] not come as a shock to me or my supporters”.

PHILADELPHIA – Hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters and other demonstrators marched down Philadelphia’s sweltering Broad Street on the opening day of the Democratic convention Monday, chanting “Nominate Sanders or lose in November!” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!”

A Democratic Party official tells Tamara that the Sanders and Clinton campaigns have tried to work together to present a united front.

The Democrats had been trying to avoid the divide that was apparent in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention last week.

“I think it’s only a slim minority who are going to say, “No way” to Hillary”, said Dan Cantor, a New Yorker and national director of the labor-backed Working Families Party.

Solomon, whose group communicates with 1,250 Sanders delegates, said supporters were weighing a number of floor protest actions this week.

“I want to be clear, we did not win this by selling out”.

Sanders will address the full convention Monday night.

Diane Russell, a state representative from ME and Sanders delegate, spoke directly to the supporters of the Vermont senator. Three young men in Robin Hood hats gave some final shouts “Bernie or bust!”

Among the protesters who started in Camden was Randall David Miller, an autoworker from Detroit who said he has seen many co-workers laid off and his own pay slashed in half over the past decade.

“And to the Bernie Sanders delegates, we want you, we need you, and we want you to be part of us”, Groen said.