The Democratic convention to crown Hillary Clinton as nominee started on Monday under the shadow of leaked organisational emails that caused the resignation of the party’s chair. He said he had demanded the resignation of party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz a long time ago for the reason. That’s a slogan from the Republican convention last week in Cleveland, where delegates chanted those three words demanding Clinton be arrested for a range of transgressions. Also on stage on Monday will be Michelle Obama, who ended up dominating some of the coverage of the Republican convention because of her speech being plagiarised by Melania Trump. The Trump campaign pushed back, calling the allegations “absurd”, and tried to goad Sanders and his supporters into retaliating, which seemed unlikely to happen.

Source: Hindustan Times July 25, 2016 16:18 UTC