In one leaked email, a DNC official wondered whether Sanders’ religious beliefs could be used against him, questioning whether the candidate may be an atheist.
“I didn’t hear one single positive thing to come out of it and yesterday we went and put in our paperwork to switch from Republican to Democrat“, Martell said. I think some of the social justice issues. Amid the growing controversy, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced on Sunday afternoon that she would step down from her post at the end of the convention. She delivers. As senator, after 9/11 I got my New Yorkers right here and my Virginians right here.
“I like Tim Kaine on a personal level”, said Kate Miller, a Sanders delegate from the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg who works as a research scientist at the University of Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions.
As the Democratic Party National Convention opens here today, many delegates are eager to meet with, and get to know, Sen.
“His political views are not my political views”.
Clinton continued to move leftward even as her campaign pivoted off the primary and into the more conservative electorate that will vote in November. Elizabeth Warren would get the nod, has expressed its disappointment with Clinton’s choice. In a CNN/ORC poll, Trump takes 48% to Clinton’s 45%. Ted Cruz, refused to endorse the billionaire businessman.
At the Republican convention, Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, sticking to the gloom-and-doom theme.
“Obama proved this is his Democratic Party”, Smith wrote. Sanders did his part, imploring his supporters to consider a country under Trump’s leadership.
Mrs. Obama’s address all but wiped away earlier tumult in the convention hall that had exposed lingering tensions between Clinton and Sanders supporters.
Dan O’Neal, 68, is a retired school teacher and delegate from Arizona, said Wasserman Schultz has to be censured.
“Brothers and sisters, this is the real world that we live in”, Sanders said as he tried to quiet the crowd.
Clinton’s campaign, citing a cybersecurity firm hired to investigate the leak, blamed Russian Federation for hacking the party’s computers and suggested the goal was to benefit Donald Trump’s campaign.
“The emails have proven the system was rigged from the start”, Manafort told “Fox News Sunday”.
The vice presidential nominee for the Democratic party, Tim Kaine, is speaking during tonight’s convention session from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
For Democrats who spent last week throwing stones at Republicans’ troubled convention in Cleveland, the scene was a painful reminder of their own glass house.
Clinton is within just days of her long-held ambition to become the party’s official presidential nominee. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. Sanders has 1,893.
Sanders endorsed Clinton two weeks ago after pressing for the party platform to include a $15-an-hour minimum wage, debt-free college and an expansion of access to health care. The state-by-state roll call is scheduled for Tuesday. But although his advocacy for Virginia’s underserved communities no doubt echoes the Church’s mission, his other political stances are less in sync with Catholic doctrine.