According to tradition, in the hall of Wells Fargo, where the roll in the deliberations of the convention, the delegates from each state sequentially read out the results of the local voting in the primaries.
Clinton had assured nomination in the primaries, but the event of the day was to call a senator from the state of Vermont, Bernie Sanders, her main rival from the primaries to break the ceremonial reading of the results and the counting of votes – the so-called. roll call – and nominate former head of American diplomacy by acclamation.
Call Senator hall adopted a stormy, long ovation. At the end of reading the results of discontinued them, and announced the appointment of Hillary. It was a distinct manifestation of the unity of the Democratic Party – underline the observers Convention.
Sanders did the same as Hillary Clinton at Democratic convention in 2008, when he appealed to delegates to discontinue “roll-call” and nominated by acclamation – Barack Obama. He had already assured the nomination in the primaries, but the difference of votes between him and Clinton was similarly insignificant as now between Clinton and Sanders.
“This is a historic moment – the first time nomination main party in America received a woman. I remember my grandmother as a woman in general could not even vote. I’m touched,” – told PAP delegate from Lake Charles, Louisiana Cheryl Abshire.
Women received in the United States the right to vote until 1920.
The ceremonial reading of the results was done to the accompaniment of the tumultuous ovation in honor of Clinton. Some of the delegates cheered, but also in honor of Sanders. In addition to the hall banners of support for Hillary Clinton, she stood a forest of banners with inscriptions “Bernie.”
Many supporters of the senator could not be reconciled with its defeat and demonstrates the support for him on the streets of Philadelphia.
In less than an hour after his appointment as Clinton, over a hundred delegates Sanders entered the tent which media news from the convention and up rooms demonstration against Clinton.
Sanders Leftist fans came with banners “Bernie” and declared: “This is our country, we are united against the oligarchy that rules America.”
They built a demonstration of “sit-in” – they sat on the floor of the tent, surrounded by a crowd of journalists and cameramen, who immediately passed on their message to the whole world. Women in the group of protesters had sealed her mouth with tape saying “Silenced” (silenced).
“Bernie is the future. Hillary is the past. It is a weak candidate. Her nomination is the risk that the White House will be Donald Trump,” – said the PAP delegate from California, Marc Landner.
Sanders repeatedly urged his supporters recently to endorse Clinton in the name of unity of the Democrats. He argued that we can not allow the elections won by Donald Trump.
According to the results of the primaries, Clinton won the votes of delegates well above the required minimum needed for the nomination. However, it has reached a minimum thanks to the votes so. superdelegates, that is not elected in the primaries the incumbent high-ranking political factions who resisted it as the candidate more “selectable”.
Sanders who has been in the primaries slightly fewer votes of delegates, declares himself as a socialist and campaigned on leftist slogans, complimentary studies at universities, doubling the minimum wage and restrictions on the activities of the big banks.
From Philadelphia Tomasz Zalewski
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