Heat wave not deterring marchers ahead of DNC

At a news conference here, Norman Soloman, a national coordinator of the Bernie Delegates Network, a group representing 1,250 Sanders delegates attending the convention, said an informal poll of the group’s members found a majority believe Kaine, a US senator from the swing state of Virginia, was “not acceptable” as a choice. But first she’ll formally open and close the convention, and address delegates.

Among the things people may not know: Clinton’s Methodist faith is “very significant”, Verveer said, citing an influential youth minister who encouraged her to focus on the underserved, including arranging for her to babysit the children of migrant workers while they picked vegetables.

Sanders was set to meet privately with supporters before the start of the convention, hours after his loyalists heckled party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a Florida breakfast in her first appearance since her decision to step down.

Dawson says that Clinton is a follower and not a leader and that “our revolution is depending on your time, your energy, your blood sweat and tears”. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who considered running for the White House himself this year, will speak at the convention and offer Clinton his formal backing.

The meeting was held shortly before Monday’s start of the party’s convention.

The crowd was expected to march down Broad Street to FDR Park about 2:30 p.m.

The protests took shape amid a punishing heat wave, with forecasters saying the temperature could hit 97 degrees and feel like 105.

Danny Glover has told the Democratic National Convention’s black caucus that it’s important to push for “transformative change” and “listen to new voices that demand speaking truth to power”. Cory Booker and Vermont Sen.

Vivirito said she would either write Sanders’ name in or vote for the Green Party’s Jill Stein – and she’s not the only Sanders supporter considering those options for November. For example, the party’s debate schedule – featuring two on Saturday nights and one during a holiday weekend – created the impression to Sanders (and many others) that the DNC had been trying to boost the well-known Clinton over her lesser-known rivals by keeping the debates few and viewership low.

The four-day convention for Democrats to nominate Hillary Clinton for president begins Monday.

Commissioner Richard Ross said Monday that the protests around the city will only get bigger.

Villalobos says he’ll spend the week reaching out to Clinton supporters to get on board with the progressive movement, because both sides are stronger together, united. So how come she has spent the entire campaign – and the years before it – making one incredibly stupid mistake after another?

Many supporters of the candidate who’ll be America’s first female presidential nominee don’t care that she’s a woman any more than they care her opponent’s a man. “I was marching and carrying signs and signing songs and chanting and I’m hot and sweaty from doing that”, said Michael Harrington, a Bernie Sanders delegate from Chicago who’d taken a break and stepped into the nearby hotel housing the IL delegation.

But many of Sanders’ die-hard delegates, frustrated with the primary process and furious with the outgoing party chair, were still weighing ways to disrupt the four-day event.

For Democrats, it complicates the already hard task of getting some Sanders backers to vote for Clinton. Clinton narrowly won the state’s non-binding presidential primary in June. One DNC official even suggested in an email that the party use Sanders’s being Jewish (or an atheist, which Sanders denies) to hurt him in the South.

Organizer Jenni Kelleher says she marched Sunday when temperatures were in the high 90s.

Kelleher, who marched Sunday, predicted that the heat won’t keep any protesters away. Lynch, 74, donned a shirt showing Sanders’ as a Muppet and wore a sticker that said “Bernie Stops Trump“.