pre-Democratic convention discussion LATEST: Sanders supporters protesting

[Likely Voter]

Michael Bloomberg will speak and endorse Clinton and the DNC

Looks like Clinton is going hard for the soft Republican vote.

I had always thought they would find their Zell Miller in reverse. I had predicted it would be former NJ Gov (and NeverTrumper) Christine Todd Whitman, and I'm sure they tried to get her. I guess she isn't ready to cross over to the other side.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

CNN: DWS IN MEETING RIGHT NOW TO DISCUSS HER FUTURE

[Gass3268]

Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Cleveland, Ohio) will be the new chair of the convention.

[The Other Castro]

O Debbie Schultz, the pipes the pipes are calling.

[Ebsy]

Unless they are actually going to can DWS, all the meetings about her future and removing her as a speaker/convention chair do more harm than good. They provide a drip drip drip of negative news articles and all sorts of false hand-wringing on the divisions within the Democratic Party.

[Bojack Horseman]

Frankly the DNC did the right thing all along, they just should have done a better job of containing Sanders. We as the hated establishment are the adults in the party, and we're in charge. We must tune out the base for the same reason that football coaches don't listen to what the fans in the stadium think.

[Illiniwek]

They really should've lined up Jon Stewart to speak at the convention. He would be great at making trump look like an idiot. If he's not on the daily show anymore, what's stopping him?

[Likely Voter]

They really should've lined up Jon Stewart to speak at the convention. He would be great at making trump look like an idiot. If he's not on the daily show anymore, what's stopping him?

While this isn't going to happen, I think you will see more humor in the speches at the DNC. Instead of anger and going for chants of 'lock her up', they will probably use more mockery and get people to laugh at Trump. The Keeping in 1600 podcast guys (former speech writers) noted how grim the RNC was and noted they really needed more joke writers. I suspect the Clinton campaign has made joke writers available to various speakers, probably including a number who have worked on the Daily Show and SNL.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Frankly the DNC did the right thing all along, they just should have done a better job of containing Sanders. We as the hated establishment are the adults in the party, and we're in charge. We must tune out the base for the same reason that football coaches don't listen to what the fans in the stadium think.

So are we going to give up the "Democratic Party" name or what?

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Better to rip the band-aid off today and not have it drag out like the Melania speech. At least Bernie can say he exerted strong influence on the DNC outside of the platform additions. I'd imagine Bernie fans would celebrate her removal today more than anything else

[NeverAgain]

Frankly the DNC did the right thing all along, they just should have done a better job of containing Sanders. We as the hated establishment are the adults in the party, and we're in charge. We must tune out the base for the same reason that football coaches don't listen to what the fans in the stadium think.

Let's abolish voting too. Otherwise the 'adults' won't have as much of say. Democracy is overrated anyways.

[Horsemask]

DWS STEPPING DOWN

[Penelope]

Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign will be the first transgender speaker at a major party convention.

http://www.hrc.org/blog/hrcs-sarah-mcbride-to-become-first-openly-transgender-person-to-speak-at-a/

Great news!

[Wells]

DWS STEPPING DOWN

YES!!!

[ag]

Michael Bloomberg will speak and endorse Clinton and the DNC

Looks like Clinton is going hard for the soft Republican vote.

Great news!

Hoping there will be others.

[Gass3268]

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[Classic Conservative]

Michael Bloomberg will speak and endorse Clinton and the DNC

Looks like Clinton is going hard for the soft Republican vote.

How is Bloomberg even a republican? He's a nanny statist

[mgop]

and dems talk how gop is divided lol now with trump - pence ticket gop is united and dnc is falling apart. first they choose kaine and slap in the face millions of sanders supporters and now this. dont expect people who vote for sanders economic "revolution" to vote for wall street puppets, november will be easy win for trump.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

It's pretty sh-tty to be relitigating Bernie Sanders' old bullsh-t over Facebook thanks to this WikiLeaks stuff. It was nice not having to be reminded how stupid some people are.

[Gass3268]

It's pretty sh-tty to be relitigating Bernie Sanders' old bullsh-t over Facebook thanks to this WikiLeaks stuff. It was nice not having to be reminded how stupid some people are.

Yeah, but Bernie and Jeff Weaver have been saying all the right things today, plus I imagine Bernie will knock his speech out of the park tomorrow night, which is help cool some of these issues.

[Mr. Morden]

Michael Bloomberg will speak and endorse Clinton and the DNC

Looks like Clinton is going hard for the soft Republican vote.

I had always thought they would find their Zell Miller in reverse. I had predicted it would be former NJ Gov (and NeverTrumper) Christine Todd Whitman, and I'm sure they tried to get her. I guess she isn't ready to cross over to the other side.

The thing is though, usually with these crossover speakers like Zell Miller, they only speak at the opposite party's convention if they're affirmatively enthusiastic about that opposite party's nominee.  Which #NeverTrump Republican is actually enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton?  Of the few who are entertaining voting for her, it's always because she's the least bad option.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

It's pretty sh-tty to be relitigating Bernie Sanders' old bullsh-t over Facebook thanks to this WikiLeaks stuff. It was nice not having to be reminded how stupid some people are.

Yeah, but Bernie and Jeff Weaver have been saying all the right things today, plus I imagine Bernie will knock his speech out of the park tomorrow night, which is help cool some of these issues.

I really appreciate the tenor of your response, Gass, because my comment above was pretty out of line. I apologize. I understand that the leaks do not help the case for the DNC's impartiality. My frustration, though, is that they are now being used to prove the BernieBros' most outrageous claims about "the rigged system," even though the e-mails don't really illuminate anything concrete at all. And it's all over my Facebook. Sigh.

I just hate that this episode seems to have so completely torn apart the tender bonds of unity that were beginning to form. I really hope you're right that Bernie can smooth things over. But to be honest, the Clinton hack in me doesn't really think he's been the best of surrogates, so I'm not really convinced he'll offer anything other than his usual stump speech. I pray that I'm wrong, because this moment was certainly powerful eight years ago. And while I don't expect Bernie to do something like that, I hope he can step up in this moment of need.

[KingSweden]

It's pretty sh-tty to be relitigating Bernie Sanders' old bullsh-t over Facebook thanks to this WikiLeaks stuff. It was nice not having to be reminded how stupid some people are.

Yeah, but Bernie and Jeff Weaver have been saying all the right things today, plus I imagine Bernie will knock his speech out of the park tomorrow night, which is help cool some of these issues.

Ding ding ding! As usual, a great comment by Gass. As petty as Bernie's feud with DWS seemed to be at times, in this day and age with nothing private, an impartial body can't be saying this stuff about an active candidate via emails and she had to go. Still, for the Berners who care about the man (I believe they are the majority) rather than their fantasies of revolution, his example and completion today is what I think will be he end result. They were rightly offended but pleased that the offense was punished swiftly and unequivocally.

[freedomburns]

I sure can't wait to hear Bernie's speech tomorrow.

Also, not at all sad to see Debbie shown the door.  She was digging in her heels.  There is no doubt that this decision had to have come straight from Obama.

[Likely Voter]

On MSNBC Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Schultz will speak at the DNC saying "she desires the opportunity to address the delegates this week as some of her final days as DNC chairwoman, and I know that there are going to be some people that disagree with that decision, but think of the gesture she is making in a nod to party unity today. It is a huge step for her to announce that she is stepping down."  Steve Kornacki seemed dumfounded and asked "does she know what she is walking into?" Fallon said he hoped that "people are mindful" of her leaving at the end of the week... good luck with that.