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A delegate cheers during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia. The 2016 Democratic National Convention is underway, and the factual inaccuracies on the first night focused on income, college tuition and something the Republican ticket had said or done.
Sen. Bernie Sanders headlined the first night of the Democratic National Convention, urging supporters to keep the party together. However, many of his most ardent supporters oppose the idea of voting for Hillary Clinton.
Supporters of independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential runner-up Bernie Sanders have been making headlines all day by vocally expressing their displeasure with Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, but at least one prominent Sanders supporter has had enough. Comic actress and stand-up superstar Sarah Silverman did a few of her least-edgy minutes of comedy ever, and when she got to the part where she told the crowd she was voting for a "kick-ass woman" named Hillary Clinton, the room swelled with applause.
Sanders' campaign emailed delegates at about 4:50 p.m. Monday, half an hour after the opening gavel fell in Philadelphia. USA TODAY Sen. Bernie Sanders asked his supporters not to boo or make other protests on the floor of the Democratic National Convention - after delegates had already been expressing discontent.
Silverman, herself a fan of the Vermont senator, on Monday night brought the crowd at the Democratic National Convention to its feet with a rousing speech calling for party unity. Hillary Rodham Clinton FULL SPEECH: Cory Booker addresses delegates in Philly Sanders aide dismisses challenging Kaine VP spot Dem Senate nominee calls Toomey an 'a--hole' MORE "Not only did Bernie wake us up," Silverman, 45, said, "he made us understand what is possible and what we deserve.
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.
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.
When he addressed Keystone State delegates at their first breakfast of this week's Democratic National Convention on Monday morning, Gov. Tom Wolf reminded them that, as the home state, they had a responsibility to play the gracious host. "I want you to leave this breakfast proud that you are Pennsylvanians and leave this city [at the end of this convention] proud that you are Democrats," Wolf said during a brief address at the Doubletree Hotel in Centre City.
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."
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.
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.
Media from across the globe received swag bags filled with water bottles, lapel pins and toys when they arrived in Philadelphia Sunday in preparation for the Democratic National Convention. The event begins Monday at the Wells Fargo Center and runs through Thursday, July 28. Sen. Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama are slated to speak to delegates tonight.
Democrats kick off their convention Monday under the cloud of party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's resignation and Donald Trump's 6 point bounce coming out of last week's GOP convention. The big question as the convention gavels in at 4 p.m. ET: Will Wasserman Schultz address her fellow Democrats? And if so, will she be booed, even if she's only present for a brief three minute speech? It will be an early bit of drama ahead of a convention lineup that's packed with star power -- with two presidents, a vice president and the first lady serving as warm-up acts for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
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.
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The Democratic National Convention gets underway today in Philadelphia, kicking off four days of politics and parties that will culminate Thursday in the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the party's nominee for president. Tonight starts out with Clinton's former rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama delivering the keynote addresses, as the convention tries to rally around the theme "Unity together."
Democrats are opening their national convention in Philadelphia eager to show off a forward-looking party united behind Hillary Clinton, but they face lingering bitterness among supporters of defeated rival Bernie Sanders and a fresh political mess of the party's own making. The resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee made for a rocky start on Sunday, as the Florida congresswoman heeded Sanders' longstanding call to leave as party chief.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Sunday suggested that the hacking of Democrat National Committee emails was done by the Russians to help elect Donald Trump president. "I think the DNC needs to get to the bottom of the facts and then take appropriate action on any of these emails," Robby Mook told ABC's "This Week."