Do
not forget
Sanders
announced his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on
April 30, 2015. He became the first Jewish American to win a
Presidential primary contest when he defeated eventual nominee
Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire on February 9, 2016. Initially
considered a long shot, Sanders won 23 primaries and caucuses and
approximately 43% of pledged delegates to Clinton's 55%. His campaign
was noted for the enthusiasm of its supporters, as well as his
rejection of large donations from corporations, the financial
industry, and any associated Super PAC. The campaign instead relied
on a record-breaking number of small, individual contributions.
On 22 July
2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 e-mails and over 8,000
attachments from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the
governing body of the U.S. Democratic Party. The leak includes emails
from seven key DNC staff members, and date from January 2015 to May
2016. The collection of emails allegedly disclose the bias of key DNC
staffers against the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign. WikiLeaks did not reveal
their source. [...] On 7 October 2016, WikiLeaks started releasing
emails from John Podesta, the Chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016
presidential campaign. The emails provide some insight to the inner
workings of Clinton's campaign. One of the emails contained 25
excerpts from Clinton's paid Wall Street speeches. Another leaked
document included eighty pages of Clinton's Wall Street speech. Also
among these emails was an email from Donna Brazile to Podesta that
suggested that Brazile had received a town hall debate question in
advance and was sharing it with Clinton.
Following
the release by Wikileaks of a collection of emails indicating that
Schultz and other members of the DNC staff showed bias against the
presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary
Clinton's campaign, Wasserman Schultz resigned her position as
chairperson of the Democratic National Committee after the 2016
Democratic National Convention.
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