Sanders to supporters: Don’t protest at DNC
OR also has 13 superdelegates, a term for those who are free to vote however they please – a powerful role that Sanders supporters failed to get abolished Saturday during a DNC meeting but instead reached an agreement to scale back their influence in future elections.
“I really feel that Bernie Sanders has gone the whole road that he can”.
His theme remained that all Democrats must get behind Clinton so that the Republican nominee will not win the presidency.
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The Florida delegates’ breakfast at the Democratic National Convention is, historically, a warm and inviting introduction to a week-long political love fest.
“Any objective observer will conclude that, based on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”, Sanders said.
By the time Sanders took the stage for the night’s closing address, much of the anger had been overshadowed by speeches promoting party unity.
“I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am”, Sanders said.
Clinton campaign officials said it appears Russian hackers were responsible for the leak and were trying to benefit Republican Donald Trump’s campaign.
“At the end of the day, this is was a hard-fought, fair-fought election”, he said.
Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) was not “pushed out” over an email leak; she was “pushed out” because of the way she and the Democrats ran the organization.
Sanders told his delegates Monday that Wasserman Schultz’s departure would “open the doors of the party to people who want real change”.
The outgoing chairwoman did watch the gathering from a private suite at the arena. The correspondence, posted by WikiLeaks over the weekend, showed top officials at the supposedly neutral DNC favoring Clinton over Sanders in the presidential primaries.
While her ouster was a major victory for Sanders, it wasn’t enough to ease the frustration of his supporters.
The NJDC crowd greeted her with cheers, and she sounded defiant and struck a Jewish note in addressing the email scandal. Sanders was able to focus on the issues and start uniting the party.
The email release complicated the situation, Phillips said, in that it made Sanders supporters more likely to seek a way to register their displeasure during proceedings here at the Democratic National Convention. Tim Kaine, and defeat Trump.
“I have not left the district in eight months”, said Canova. “We’ve worked hard as a movement”.
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