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Philadelphia: Fractious DNC Opens Amid Party Turmoil

HeadlineJul 26, 2016

The Democratic National Convention opened in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Monday amid an ongoing scandal over the released DNC emails and public divisions between Clinton and Sanders supporters. On Monday morning, protesters booed and heckled DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a Florida delegation breakfast, yelling “Shame! Shame! Shame!” and carrying signs reading “emails.” Wasserman Schultz has resigned in the wake of WikiLeaks’ release of 20,000 emails, which show the DNC worked to discredit and defeat Bernie Sanders. The FBI has launched an investigation into whether Russian spy services were behind the hack. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake took over Wasserman Schultz’s role of gaveling in the opening of the convention Monday afternoon.

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