Surprise: Bernie Sanders crashes Florida Democratic breakfast

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a daily breakfast meeting for California Democratic delegates during a Democratic National Convention event at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott, in Philadelphia, Penn., on Tuesday, July 26, 2016.

Monday night, Sanders acknowledged his differences with Clinton, saying their hard-fought primary is “what democracy is all about”.

Speaking to the convention delegates on Monday night, Sanders said understood “that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process”.

There are obviously still fences to mend (see above), but the message Democrats aimed to send on the first night of their convention was clear: The party’s leading liberals are firmly behind Clinton.

The star of the evening was Michelle Obama, just as she was at the Republican convention’s opener, thanks to Melania Trump’s partially plagiarized speech. Detractors view her as too cozy with the establishment, and with political baggage dating back to the start of her husband’s first term in 1993.

While Mrs. Obama has often avoided overt politics, she did not shy away from taking on Trump.

“This election is about – and must be about – the needs of the American people and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren, ” Sanders said, during remarks that addressed, point by point, why his supporters should now embrace Hillary Clinton.

A CNN/ORC opinion poll on Monday gave Trump a three-point lead over former secretary of state Clinton, 48 percent to her 45 percent in a two-way presidential matchup. Hundreds of pro-Sanders delegates shouted “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie!” as their unlikely primary candidate took the stage to throw his support behind the Democratic rival he spent most of the year lampooning as corrupt and compromised. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Clinton campaign was looking into ways to further involve her one-time primary competitor, Vermont Sen.

Sanders went on to call Trump “a demagogue who does not believe in the Constitution of the United States”.

“What we must do, or forever look back and regret, is defeat Donald Trump, and we must elect Hillary Clinton”, Sanders told the rowdy crowd, many of whom had left their tables to rush the stage when he was introduced for the unscheduled speech.

“Brothers and sisters, this is the real world that we live in”, Sanders pleaded.

But that didn’t occur during Sanders’ speech Tuesday to Missouri delegates.

“The roll call vote of each state, which is going to take place late this afternoon, is going to pose and even bigger opportunity for any disgruntled Sanders voters to show their displeasure”, reports ABC News.

“Sad to watch Bernie Sanders abandon his revolution”.

Bernie backers booed lustily as the platform and rules were adopted, chanting over even the opening invocation, and for the first hour or so of the proceedings, booed every mention of Hillary Clinton’s name.

“We have an enormous task ahead of us”, Democratic leader Donna Brazile told a gathering of women delegates on Tuesday.

“We know how she takes care of the veterans – just look at her invasion of Libya, at her handling of Benghazi, a disaster”, Trump said.