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Minutes after Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party's presidential nomination Tuesday night, more than 100 Bernie Sanders delegates stormed out of the Wells Fargo Center and flooded the media pavilion set up just outside. With tape on their mouths and resolve in their hearts, they staged a sit-in as cameras and reporters swarmed around them.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and comedian Sarah Silverman speak during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Monday, July 25, 2016.
The Daily Caller is at the Democratic National Convention and it doesn't look like there are any American flags. The stage is bland and grey, with no red, white or blue present.
Sarah Silverman and Senator Al Franken were introducing Paul Simon at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this evening. The Democratic party has had its share of in-fighting this election season, and suspected favoritism from party elites toward Hillary Clinton, and against Bernie Sanders, came to light in recently leaked emails .
Democratic Minnesota Sen. Al Franken advised the parents in the audience at the Democratic National Convention on Monday to ignore their children because working to get Hillary Clinton elected is more important. Addressing the people in the arena, the former Saturday Night Live writer Franken said, "Now, many of you have jobs, many of you have families.
Police briefly detained more than 50 people after they tried to storm the barricades outside the Democratic National Convention on Monday in a show of anger over Bernie Sanders' treatment by party leaders, even as he urged his supporters to fall in line behind Hillary Clinton. Several hundred Sanders supporters and other demonstrators converged in the sweltering heat on Broad Street and made their way 4 miles to the convention site as the gathering was being gaveled to order, chanting "Nominate Sanders or lose in November!" and "Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!" They carried signs reading, "Never Hillary," "Just Go to Jail Hillary" and "You Lost Me at Hillary."
The first day of the Democratic convention included an FBI investigation, senior party figures getting booed and fears of a Russian plot to defeat Hillary Clinton. If indeed Vladimir Putin's Kremlin intended to sow chaos in this U.S. presidential campaign, that mission was surely accomplished Monday.
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday without its outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, following a chaotic scene at a morning meeting where she was loudly jeered by Bernie Sanders supporters. "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 in an interview.
Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold said Monday that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was becoming an unwanted distraction and she did the right thing by resigning as head of the Democratic National Committee following an embarrassing email hack. "We don't need any distractions at this point," Feingold told reporters following an early voting rally in Madison where he stressed the importance of electing Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump .
First came the hack, then the leak. Now, the Clinton and Trump campaigns are fighting over Russia's role in the release of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emails.
Several hundred Bernie Sanders supporters and other demonstrators marched down Philadelphia's sweltering Broad Street on the opening day of the Democratic convention Monday, chanting "Nominate Sanders or lose in November!" and "Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!" Destine Madu, a protester from Maplewood, New Jersey, said it doesn't matter if Sanders is calling on his backers to support Hillary Clinton. The protests took shape amid a punishing heat wave, with oppressive humidity and temperatures in the mid-90s, along with the possibility of severe thunderstorms in the evening.
In a sign of ongoing unrest within the Democratic Party on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, supporters of Bernie Sanders repeatedly interrupted speakers at a breakfast for California delegates on Monday, chanting the Vermont senator's name and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton. The protest served as a preview for a convention whose opening night theme is "unity."
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow says she's certain Democrats will leave their convention in Philadelphia unified under the party's presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But Stabenow also says healing will be required after the resignation of Democratic National Committee chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Hillary Clinton has worked for decades to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and she intends for it to follow a traditional path this week. That is to say, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was crafted to feature a far different look and feel than that of the carnival-like atmosphere of Donald Trump's Cleveland gathering.
The chair of the Democratic National Committee "did the appropriate thing" by resigning, according to one of West Virginia's 18 pledged delegates for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders , a former Democratic presidential candidate, at this week's Democratic National Convention. Submitted in the wake of the release of hacked e-mails showing favoritism for presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton among DNC staffers during primary season, the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, also a Florida congresswoman, will take effect when the Convention closes later this week in Philadelphia, Pa.
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
Chaos erupted as Debbie Wasserman Schultz addressed Florida delegates on Monday, as protesters jeered the outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman as she delivered a speech. "So I can see that's little bit of interest in my being here and I appreciate that interest," Wasserman Schultz said amid the cacophony.
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
For Trump, it was a plagiarism scandal that surfaced after wife Melania's speech on the first night of the convention. For Clinton, it was an uproar over the release of nearly 20,000 party emails by Wikileaks ahead of the convention's start, some of which showed Democratic staffers favoring Clinton over her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.