Sanders' DNC delegates: We'll field own VP candidate against Kaine
Bernie Sanders delegates hope to challenge vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine and nominate their own candidate, the Bernie Delegates Network said at a press briefing Monday morning.
Bernie Sanders delegates hope to challenge vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine and nominate their own candidate, the Bernie Delegates Network said at a press briefing Monday morning.
Coordinator Norman Solomon, a California delegate, would not give names of potential vice presidential candidates but said the group hopes to get the necessary signatures to file the nomination.
"We're working on it," Solomon said.
With a somewhat muddled message, delegates with the network - which claims to include two-thirds of Sanders delegates - rejected the idea of party unity. While expressing anger with the Democratic Party, they said Democrats must defeat GOP nominee Donald Trump in November.
Sanders delegates may protest on the floor of the convention during Hillary Clinton's speech Thursday night, as well as against Kaine and ousted DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to three delegates from California, which has the largest Sanders delegation of any state.
"We need to be able to show that there is a space for this kind of discontent within the party... And still move forward," said Karen Bernal, a delegate from California.
Solomon called on Clinton to remove Wasserman Schultz from the Clinton campaign honorary chair position she was promised.
Hillary "has the power of unity," he said, but her choice of Kaine and her embrace of Wasserman Schultz have alienated Sanders supporters.
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