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BERNIE SANDERS SUPPORTERS booed and jeered when the Vermont Senator called on them to support Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
The unrest comes amid a party row over leaked emails that’s disrupting Clinton’s bid to present a united front against Donald Trump.
Speaking to followers ahead of a speech on the convention floor tonight, Sanders slammed the Republican as a “demagogue.”
Clinton will make history on Thursday when she formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination — the first woman to lead a major party’s White House ticket.
But two new polls showed Trump surging since his confirmation last week as the Republican presidential nominee, with a CNN poll putting him three points ahead of Clinton — a six-point post-convention bump.
“We have got to defeat Donald Trump. We have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine,” Sanders told a gathering hours before the opening of the four-day convention in Philadelphia.
“Trump is a bully and a demagogue,” said the senator from Vermont, whose call to support Clinton was met with loud jeers and chants of “We want Bernie!”
Sanders lost the primary race, but after he endorsed Clinton — and with the party desperate to present a show of unity — he has been offered a prime speaking tonight, along with popular liberal senator Elizabeth Warren.
The Democratic confab was formally opened this evening with chants of ‘Bernie! Bernie!’ heard around the arena as it began.
Even before it began, the party was scrambling to contain the damage caused by thousands of leaked emails that showed its leaders had sought to undermine Sanders during his primary battle with Clinton.
The FBI said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion” at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers bent on helping Trump.
The agency said in a statement it was “working to determine the nature and scope of the matter.”
‘Shame!’
Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks at the weekend released nearly 20,000 emails from between January 2015 and May 2016, gleaned by hackers who apparently raided the accounts of seven DNC leaders.
At least two of the messages showed senior committee members were keen to undermine the Sanders campaign by seeking to raise questions about his faith and Jewish heritage.
The DNC this evening released an official apology to Sanders saying that the remarks made over email were “inexcusable”.
DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz abruptly announced her resignation on Sunday, effective at the end of the convention.
But frustrations about the crisis boiled this morning when delegates loudly booed her as she addressed a Florida delegation breakfast.
Delegates chanted “Shame!” and held up laser-printed signs that simply read “E-mails.”
Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, had stubbornly insisted she would still open and close the convention, but after the reception she got this morning, she reversed course.
“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention,” Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel newspaper.
‘We need to move on’
Her about-face marked the latest effort by Democrats to steady a rocky ship after a hard-fought primary campaign.
The party is seeking to project a more unified message than the Republicans did at their convention last week in Cleveland, where fissures over Trump’s candidacy were laid bare.
“The Democrats are in a total meltdown,” Trump taunted on Twitter.
Trump has long sought to scoop up disaffected voters who feel Sanders — a self-described democratic socialist — was denied a fair shot at the nomination.
First lady takes the podium
Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama headline the first day of the Democratic convention.
Recently added to Monday’s program is Warren, whose support for Clinton could help convince skeptical left-wing voters to get behind the nominee.
Many in the Sanders camp have also voiced disappointment with Clinton’s choice of centre-left running mate Kaine, a senator from Virginia, instead of a more liberal firebrand like Warren.
Former president Bill Clinton is the star speaker at the convention Tuesday, while President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden take the stage Wednesday.
© – AFP 2016 with reporting by Rónán Duffy
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Wait till the Russians drop the emails she deleted. That’s gonna be fun.
Obviously they have their own agenda, but I commend the Russians for exposing the duplicitous nature of the Clinton campaign. The emails discussing how best to use Bernie’s Jewish heritage against him were especially damning.
It wasn’t to use it against him. If anything they were trying to allude to the fact that he may be atheist
They were trying to allude to his (probable) atheism in order to ‘expose’ him in front of religious voters, no?
Though not anti-semitic, it’s still an evil strategy. It’s also weird that someone has to be ‘exposed’ as an atheist in the modern era!
Spot on, only thin I’d change is the probable, I’d say it’s more just possible. Oh and in my opinion it’s also not something that should have an impact but sadly it still does, bigly
Yes, I suppose I shouldn’t presume to know Sanders’ position on the God question, though I do tend to think that many left leaning politicians simply lie or avoid the question on purpose because of their disbelief.
Wasserman Schulz is booed for running a biased race against Sanders. The journal goes with the story of Bernie being booed.
The regressive left, of which the journal is a blatant and obtuse mouthpiece, is all about controlling and manipulating information in this way. I used to think the 1984 comparisons were hyperbole, they seem more apt by the day.
the journal is the ‘mouthpiece’ of the fallon brothers and their financial backers
It’s not even the Journal writing these articles half the time, it’s AFP.
Actually in fairness to the Journal the worst stuff on their site isn’t even written by them.
I get the feeling that the emails from Waserman will have legs
This is far from over methinks
The Sanders supporters have every right to feel aggrieved, they felt throughout the primary that the system was rigged in Clinton’s favour and these e-mails serve as undeniable proof of that. How Sanders can stand by Clinton and the DNC after it is beyond me. He has sold out to the establishment.
That’s politics. He has to support the party
He’s obviously been promised a cushy role in Hillary’s administration should she get elected, which is looking far from a certainty now.
“How Sanders can stand by Clinton and the DNC after it is beyond me.”
Because the alternative is Trump, who is the opposite of everything that Sanders and his campaign represent.
“the alternative is Trump, who is the opposite of everything that Sanders and his campaign represent.”
This could go either way. One of Bernie’s main gripes, rightfully, is money in politics. I don’t think you could find a better personification of this problem than Hillary Clinton.
Though Sanders and Trump differ wildly on social issues, they are at least both fundamentally anti-establishment, whereas Clinton is vehemently pro-status-quo. To say Bernie should’ve stood behind the Democratic establishment because Trump is the antithesis of Sanders himself would be forgetting who the Democratic nominee is.
Trump was against the Iraq war, Hillary was for it. Hillary called TPP the “Gold Standard” of trade deals, both Trump and Sanders are vehemently opposed to TPP. Trump is self funded, Hillary is backed by the big banks and interest groups.
Trump was at the very most passive about the Iraq war, his only real comment before it started was that they should have done it properly the first time
The day after Bush announced the war Trump said it would be a tremendous success and that the markets would soar afterwards http://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/donald-trump-and-the-iraq-war/
Apparently Trump thought the US should “wait for the United Nations” before going to war in Iraq (in the link above)
Weird, he doesn’t strike me as the the type who cares much about international law.
It’s the triple use of perhaps that shows how vehemently opposed he is to the war. Trump: Well, he has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps shouldn’t be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know. He’s under a lot of pressure. He’s — I think he’s doing a very good job.
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I doubt greatly that Trump is the reason for Snader’s endorsement of Hillarty.
I guess Sanders doesn’t want to have a sudden heart attack or a bad car crash. I’d say that is what motivates him to support the known criminal.
Nah, vote for Il Duce, it’ll be grand sher
I assume the criminal you speak of is Trump
Trump will win this election on protest votes I feel. If the Democrats had of put Bernie forward, he would have beaten Trump soundly. But Hillary is just mixed up in too many controversies to get elected. That being said – we’ll see how the presidential debates go. Trump isn’t exactly a great orator, and Hillary could turn things around by outperforming him at debates and exploiting his ill-thought out policies.
In either case, it’s a horrible proposition for America. Neither is fit to be president.
I don’t think so Seán. I use to live in America and I have a lot of family still there. They are all conservative, military and republicans and they hate him. I think both Jill Stein and Gary Johnson will make big progress. Lat week Johnson was polling at almost 15%
The late, great George Carlin would have despised Hillary.
I wish he were alive now because the material he’d have on her would be up there with his very best.
Nailed it.
Carlins best bits would have been about Pence though. The very embodiment of everything George hated
I also wish George Carlin was around to see all this. He’d give both sides a good kicking, Democrats and Republicans.
Could have been written last week. Timeless comedy https://youtu.be/07w9K2XR3f0
Carlin no a hope in hell of that happening and I live America There is not a word spoken about either of them here, just because your family over here hate trump does not mean everyone else does ,
The only thing I like about Trump are his wives who are immigrants and he hates immigrants
I believe Trump’s problem is with illegal immigrants in fairness.
He is married to an immigrant Tony Doyle.
Chlorines, if only Tony had mentioned that in his comment, if only
I really wanted Bernie to win the nomination and become President, but now I’m hoping Trump beats Hillary.
Too right. Boo away
I see the clinton camp are trying to deflect all this email stuff . It’s all Russians fault. Big bad Putin is behind it. Because Putin wants trump. Never heard such s,ite as what they are saying on CNN. Really sad
the accusation from Democrats this week, after embarrassing internal Democratic National Committee emails appeared on Wikileaks on the eve of the party’s convention in Philadelphia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin want to help Donald Trump win the White House?
As part of their pushback against the emails’ damning details, many Democrats accuse Putin of trying to help Trump’s campaign. They point to mutually admiring comments between the two men,
the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,” Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, told CNN on Sunday.
the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton pointed the finger at Russia, saying the release of stolen emails was intended to help Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Forget the were written in the first place. Let’s just point the finger.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday about that “changes to the Republican platform to make it more pro-Russian,” which could provide some of the motive behind the hacks.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that’s disturbing,” he said.
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-dnc-emails-russia/&ved=0ahUKEwik9K29x4_OAhWmC8AKHeEqDp0QFggsMAM&usg=AFQjCNEkIj04C-1gSP67lgjtKYUNR1fscg
this conversation could do with more people
It’s weird that CNN would blame others (Putin in this case) for leaking emails that put the DNC in a bad light.
Putin didn’t write the emails. The identity of the leaker is unimportant, the important part is the disgraceful content of the emails, that clearly show the DNC colluded with the media to back Hillary.
Spot on Malachi. How they got out is not the issue but it is a shiny distraction.
Been saying it for years.
Hilary Clinton is probably the most war hungry, ruthless and corrupt politician in American history.
A Machiavellian character of the highest order.
No one listened to me.
But you’re listening now though aren’t you.
And you better keep listening.
No.
No
who said that?
I was going to say ‘Who’s laughing now?’
But this ain’t no laughing matter.
This is serious shit.
She is plenty bad, but ‘the most in history’? A tad hyperbolic. Think you’ll find a few others that might be a wee bit worse here and there .
Double negative there Ricky?
Ahhh Chris Ricky,
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Don’t let it go to your head.
Trump Train: non-stop service to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!!
Choo-choo ! Everyone on board the Trump Train :)
choo-choo open up wide
Vote for Trump and drop your trunks
The train is for Hillary
Trump can oversee her from his chopper
Jeepers. ‘Idiocracy’ is going to happen.
“It’s got electrolytes”….
I don’t know why we sneer at Trump, we ended up with that moron Kenny.
I’m not sneering at Trump. He’s a marketing genius.
I just mean that they are set to vote for the lowest common denominator, which if you follow to its natural conclusion leads to ‘idiocracy’.
Trump will be the next President
The communist buffoon was found out.
Great stuff. Trump cant be bought because hes already rich
The veneer of democracy is even thinner than usual this election.
The hackers aren’t to blame of why Hillary is so corrupt. But listening to CNN it is all Putin’s fault!
How can anybody take CNN seriously?
Because this is also mascarrading as a news channel https://youtu.be/B7VNfRhtqPY
Can’t beat the Americans and watch them elect Trump as that’s about as high an intellect as they can muster. The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum and we think Enda is a clown well just take look at what the Americans are going to elect
Spoilt children throwing a tantrum and smashing the toy because they can’t have it…
Sometimes I think if this is really where we’re at currently maybe they need a rude awakening Brexit and a Trump presidency to show them just how bad it can get.
They’re not Sanders supporters. They are Clinton haters. If it was a frog in a hat that was running instead of Bernie Sanders they’d have had banners for the frog.
Makes no difference, it all stopped after Michelle Obama’s speech. Warren was uninterrupted and Sanders was barely even allowed to speak for fear of being drowned out by cheering amd chanting
Bernie Sanders erred massively with ‘no one cares about your damn emails’ at a debate. It goes to the core of Hillary Rotten Clinton’s probity, if the Saudi bribes to the Clinton Foundation, are somehow ignored. The DNC conspired against Bernie, yet there he was like a cuck supporting the woman who betrayed him.
What did he expect? It’s like asking Liverpool fans to cheer for Man Utd
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