Sanders loyalists warn of party split after Clinton victory

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Sanders loyalists warn of party split after Clinton victory
GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
MEGAN TRIMBLE, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernie Sanders loyalists warned that the Democratic Party could rupture over the nomination of Hillary Clinton after a volatile night that saw a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exit the party's national convention to stage a sit-in at a nearby media tent.

They rejected Sanders' call for unity even after the Vermont senator took the symbolic step of declaring Clinton the winner of the state-by-state delegate count inside the convention in Philadelphia.

"I suspect we are witnessing an event that will fundamentally change American politics," said Cory James, 22, a college student from Flint, Michigan, who expects the Democratic Party to break apart over Clinton's victory.

Thousands of activists have taken to the streets during the convention this week to voice support for Sanders, a liberal U.S. senator, and his progressive agenda. The "Bernie or bust" brigades that have marched across the sun-warped city threatened to disrupt Clinton's moment as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party.

"We all have this unrealistic dream that democracy is alive in America," said Debra Dilks, of Boonville, Missouri, who spoke as a protest broke up near Philadelphia's City Hall.

She said she wasn't sure she would even vote in November.

"Hillary didn't get the nomination. The nomination was stolen," Dilks said.

At the media tent protest, some had their mouths taped shut, while a few others spontaneously sang, "This land is our land." They said they were holding a peaceful protest to complain about being shut out by the Democratic Party.

In the streets outside, Sanders supporters who had spent the day protesting began facing off with police. They started scaling 8-foot walls that blocked off the secure zone around the arena parking lot. Police and the Secret Service immediately arrested four protesters, who will be charged with entering a restricted area. They're scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.

Protests continued into the night as Sanders supporters and an anti-police brutality group joined together. Later, another protester set an Israeli flag on fire as people chanted, "long live the intifada."

Others then came together for a candlelight vigil.

Earlier in the day, activists held a midday rally at City Hall, and then made their way down Broad Street to the convention site. By early evening, a large crowd had formed outside the subway station closest to the arena. The crowd consisted of an assortment of protesters espousing a variety of causes, but mostly Sanders supporters and other Clinton foes on the left.

"I think people were hoping we could sway the delegates and show that there really is a movement here," said Alexis Holmes, a school janitor from Carbondale, Illinois, who has been protesting in the city since Sunday.

The longstanding bitterness between Sanders' supporters and Clinton's seemed to grow worse over the past few days after a trove of hacked emails showed that officials at the Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primaries and worked to undermine Sanders' campaign.

Sanders had urged supporters Monday to fall in line behind Clinton for the good of the country. But many were not swayed.

Engineer Chris Scully, of Troy, New York, said he opposes Clinton because of her war record as U.S. secretary of state. He carried a "Jill Before Hill" sign Tuesday at a demonstration at City Hall, in a nod to Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

As Scully spoke, a passer-by called out: "That's a vote for Trump!"

In a separate protest against police brutality and racial injustice, about 500 people marched down Broad Street to City Hall. Protest leader Erica Mines told the crowd that it was an "anti-police rally" and a "black and brown resistance march" and instructed all white people to move to the back.

March participant Tiara Willis, of Philadelphia, said she subscribes to the slogan "I'm with her ... I guess." She said she would not back Trump and called Clinton, "the lesser of two evils."


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-07-27

[NovaBlue05]

Go Team Go!

[mopar71]

They may be split...but they ain't getting close to the convention hall now that the Dems have erected yet another NEW fence...

http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/ironic-dems-just-put-another-one-convention

[Pimay1]

They may be split...but they ain't getting close to the convention hall now that the Dems have erected yet another NEW fence...

http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/ironic-dems-just-put-another-one-convention

Such hypocrisy by the tolerant democrats.

[NovaBlue05]

Sit back and enjoy the next three months until the election.

After that corrupt display choreographed by the White House and/or their handlers during the first 5 days of July, we might see anything.

Edited July 27, 2016 by NovaBlue05

[Inn Between]

Hilarity Clinton was chosen to act as the next POTUS years ago and nothing will stop that. The powers that be will ensure it, regardless of opponents or even if exit polls indicate otherwise. If you look at the comments on places like Yahoo News (Ya, I know it's crap but it carries stories common to all sources) it seems she's despised -- hard to find a favourable comment about her, yet I'm confident that she'll be placed in the Oval Office in 2017.

[Alive]

Why should Bernie supporters vote for Hillary? Since the beginning the Hillary nuts have been saying Bernie has never really been a democrat. So his supporters aren't either. They should vote their hearts and not follow the jerks that have been putting them down all along if they don't want to. They never were democrats so the angry hateful dems should just shut up about it.

[halloween]

Not even one round of Kumbaya?

[Berty100]

I wonder what those that were ridiculing Trump and the Republican convention have to say on this.

No doubt the Democrats gonna win this ................................the award for most laughable convention that is.

[bark]

Bernie will be the next Ambassador to Thailand. You will see him at Nana Plaza, for sure.

[ThaiWest]

Wonderful! All the more for TRUMP!

[Emster23]

Considering Bernie didn't join Democrat party until he decided to run, he can hardly gripe about rules and procedures of group he only joined in order to run for President. If he'd joined before 2012 he could have gone to convention and worked to change rules. He is like a guy who crashes your party and then complains about the music.

[ThaiWest]

Bernie will be the next Ambassador to Thailand. You will see him at Nana Plaza, for sure.

And the GREATEST and most POPULAR CUSTOMER!

[Asiantravel]

" the Democratic Party could rupture over the nomination of Hillary Clinton "

and the United States of America could rupture over the election of Hillary Clinton

[malibukid]

CNN is not reporting this, skewed coverage.

[NovaBlue05]

CNN is not reporting this, skewed coverage.

I was about to say that if you are a Hillary lemming like some here, you can tune over to CNN. They are reporting the party unity like it's Clinton '96 rather than Clinton '16

[Dumbastheycome]

Perhaps the "predetermined" nomination of a "war horse"is due to also predetermined criteria not quite yet made evident?

Whichever way the pendulum swings the clock that counts down to 2017 we may see a very sombre introduction.

[zydeco]

They may be split...but they ain't getting close to the convention hall now that the Dems have erected yet another NEW fence...

http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/ironic-dems-just-put-another-one-convention

Wow. It's easier for a moslem "refugee" to get into the US than it is for a Democratic delegate to go near the stage at the Democratic National Convention.

[Steely Dan]

The mass walk out at the DNC shows Hillary is toast, make way for president Trump.

[ozyjon]

Hilarity Clinton was chosen to act as the next POTUS years ago and nothing will stop that. The powers that be will ensure it, regardless of opponents or even if exit polls indicate otherwise. If you look at the comments on places like Yahoo News (Ya, I know it's crap but it carries stories common to all sources) it seems she's despised -- hard to find a favorable comment about her, yet I'm confident that she'll be placed in the Oval Office in 2017.

You should see the vomit inducing dribble churned out by CNN,

it's all about Hillary, cant watch more than 5 seconds of it.

watch this to clear the mind

[Inn Between]

Hilarity Clinton was chosen to act as the next POTUS years ago and nothing will stop that. The powers that be will ensure it, regardless of opponents or even if exit polls indicate otherwise. If you look at the comments on places like Yahoo News (Ya, I know it's crap but it carries stories common to all sources) it seems she's despised -- hard to find a favorable comment about her, yet I'm confident that she'll be placed in the Oval Office in 2017.

You should see the vomit inducing dribble churned out by CNN,

it's all about Hillary, cant watch more than 5 seconds of it.

watch this to clear the mind

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[ttthailand]

Green Party is looking better every day, worth a visit prior to casting your vote for the lesser of two evils.

[Berty100]

The mass walk out at the DNC shows Hillary is toast, make way for president Trump.

ImageUploadedByThaivisa Connect1469634261.774430.jpg

Wiki leaks has reported that there is more to come in the next few days, and the Democrat party has gone in damage control with the poor argument that wiki leaks is instead spying on us LOL,

I wonder if they will start shooting at each other before the DMC has ended.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-dnc-leak-assange-russia-163854503.html

If you value privacy, WikiLeaks stopped being your friend years ago

[Berkshire]

The mass walk out at the DNC shows Hillary is toast, make way for president Trump.

ImageUploadedByThaivisa Connect1469634261.774430.jpg

Wiki leaks has reported that there is more to come in the next few days, and the Democrat party has gone in damage control with the poor argument that wiki leaks is instead spying on us LOL,

I wonder if they will start shooting at each other before the DMC has ended.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-dnc-leak-assange-russia-163854503.html

If you value privacy, WikiLeaks stopped being your friend years ago

You guys are funny. Did you watch the DNC this morning? Great speeches, from Huston, Panetta, Biden, Kaine, and of course, the President. Trump is toast.

[Linzz]

On 7/28/2016 at 5:16 AM, ozyjon said:

You should see the vomit inducing dribble churned out by CNN,

it's all about Hillary, cant watch more than 5 seconds of it.

watch this to clear the mind

 

 

[Jingthing]

The Sandernistas that were at the convention (and protesting in the streets) of course are among the most passionate and ideologically driven in the nation. In no way do they represent the majority of people that voted for or relate to Bernie Sanders. In fact, many Hillary Clinton voters also like Bernie Sanders, but chose Clinton because of a reasonable fear that Sanders socialist identification would so massively demonized by republican attack ads as to make actually winning in the general impossible. The democratic party is NOT splitting.

 

The REPUBLICAN party, though, clearly is. 

[MisterTee]

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

The Sandernistas that were at the convention (and protesting in the streets) of course are among the most passionate and ideologically driven in the nation. In no way do they represent the majority of people that voted for or relate to Bernie Sanders. In fact, many Hillary Clinton voters also like Bernie Sanders, but chose Clinton because of a reasonable fear that Sanders socialist identification would so massively demonized by republican attack ads as to make actually winning in the general impossible. The democratic party is NOT splitting.

 

The REPUBLICAN party, though, clearly is. 

That's just wishful thinking on your part.

As always, you're pushing an agenda.

The fact is, both parties are split.

The only thing that unites the Republicans is hatred of Hillary.

The only thing that unites the Democrats is fear of Donald Trump.