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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."
Tim Vandeveer, candidate for the State Party Chair, speaks to the members at the Democratic Party of Hawaii 2016 Convention at the Sheraton Waikiki, Sunday, May 29, 2016. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono is a lifelong Democrat who has achieved her share of political "firsts."
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.
Protests on the streets and a shakeup inside the Democratic National Committee kicks off the party's nominating convention in Philadelphia Monday, signaling that matters are nowhere near settled as the second and last convention of the 2016 Presidential Convention gets underway. Amid the rancor, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and her selected vice presidential running mate Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, presented a more calm demeanor in an interview with Scott Pelly on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
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."
Delegates for New Jersey's Democratic National Convention began arriving in the city of Brotherly Love Sunday, ready to formally nominate Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee. But a rift in the party still remains - some Bernie Sanders supporters have not thrown their support behind Clinton.
The convention kicks off on Monday and culminates on Thursday when Hillary Clinton is expected to accept the party's nomination for president. Clinton will face Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
Donald Trump comes out of his convention ahead of Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, topping her 44% to 39% in a four-way matchup including Gary Johnson and Jill Stein and by three points in a two-way head-to-head, 48% to 45%. That latter finding represents a 6-point convention bounce for Trump, which are traditionally measured in two-way matchups.
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Comic Sarah Silverman joined Sen. Al Franken Monday night to urge Democratic National Convention delegates to unite - then stirred up Bernie Sanders die-hards with some choice words: "To the Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous."
The Democratic National Convention gets underway in Philadelphia on Monday with much bigger demonstrations than the Republican convention and much higher temperatures, as the region copes with an oppressive heat wave. In one of the largest rallies planned for the day, a pro-Bernie Sanders group is expected to walk across the Ben Franklin Bridge, which connects Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Donald Trump Jr says he'd love to run for New York mayor against Bill de Blasio 'as service to my country' Donald Trump Jr said on Sunday he would "love" to run for mayor of New York City against the Democratic incumbent, Bill de Blasio, "if I could do that as a service to my country". Trump Jr was appearing on CNN's State of the Union as a surrogate for his father, the Republican nominee for president.
Is Putin trying to 'weaponize' Wikileaks to get Trump into the White House? Clinton campaign claims hackers linked to Russian government leaked DNC emails Clinton's campaign says the move comes after Trump showed last week a pro-Russian stance regarding dealing with NATO allies Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Sunday laid the blame at Vladimir Putin's doorsteps for the trove of some 19,252 emails leaked from the Democratic National Committee. 'What's disturbing to us is that experts are telling us is Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,' Mook said on CNN 's 'State of the Union.'
Colorado House Democratic leader Crisanta Duran will tell the story of Colorado, women and Latinos at the Democratic National Convention between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday. And although she received only a week's notice to prepare the biggest speech of her political career so far, Duran's past aligns well with the campaign of presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton and Mary Thomas have little in common, except for this: They both hope to add to the meager ranks of America's female elected officials come January.
Hillary Clinton is set to officially become the Democratic presidential nominee this week as the party's selection convention gets underway in Philadelphia later. The convention has already been overshadowed by the resignation of the party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz over Wikileaks revelations that some in the party's leadership favoured Ms Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders.
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One week after Republicans sounded the gavel opening their gathering of party faithful, Democrats will do the same - even as they acknowledge familiar concerns regarding security, safety and a heightened state of tensions around the country. As much as the traditions of these political conventions are similar, we expect Democrats, at least publicly, to represent a more united front than Republicans did in Cleveland.
Philadelphia: It might have sounded barmy, but extraordinary allegations by the Democratic Party that Moscow is behind a massive leak of internal party emails as a Russian strategy to improve the electoral prospects of the GOP's Donald Trump are being taken seriously. The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigns amid a furor over leaked emails that appear to show the DNC chair playing favorites in the heated primary race.