Amid dramatic protests at the Democratic National Convention, Bernie Sanders was audibly booed during a speech Monday afternoon after throwing his support behind Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
Thousands of people marched in Philadelphia Monday in protest against Clinton and soon-to-be-former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who resigned from her post Sunday in the wake of an email dump by WikiLeaks last week. The emails proved what many onlookers have considered to be long-running favoritism among party leaders toward Hillary Clinton.
"We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine," Sanders said to a jeering crowd Monday afternoon. "Brothers and sisters, this is the real world that we live in. Trump is a bully."
The incident has since boosted the amount of Google searches for “booing”; even more than when Ted Cruz was booed after he refused to endorse Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention last week.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinelin an interview Monday that she would not gavel in the convention "in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note." Baltimore Mayor and DNC Secretary Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will open the convention at 4 p.m. EST in her place, Wasserman Schultz also said. In an earlier interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Weaver said that while the Sanders camp would encourage attendees to "be respectful" of Wasserman Schultz, it may be a "very difficult situation."
"I think there is a lot of justifiable upset at the way things were handled at the DNC ... and I certainly cannot guarantee how our people will respond," Weaver said.
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