{"id":280867,"date":"2016-11-24T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnns-sanders-we-dont-need-white-people-leading-the-democratic-party-right-now\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:10:53","slug":"cnns-sanders-we-dont-need-white-people-leading-the-democratic-party-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnns-sanders-we-dont-need-white-people-leading-the-democratic-party-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Sanders: \u2018We Don\u2019t Need White People Leading the Democratic Party Right Now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BhZssXV0DwI\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom,\u201d CNN Political Commentator and former National Press Secretary to Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Symone Sanders argued, \u201cwe don\u2019t need white people leading the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in our leadership,\u201d during a discussion on the possible DNC Chairmanship of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (D).<\/p>\n<p>Sanders stated that she does think WikiLeaks played a role in the Democratic Party\u2019s poor favorability. After the discussion turned to the race for DNC Chair, Sanders said that she didn\u2019t have a candidate she supported yet.<\/p>\n<p>She commented on Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) by saying that it was \u201cdifficult\u201d to have a Chair who had another job, but praised Ellison as \u201cgreat,\u201d \u201camazing,\u201d and a \u201cfighter\u201d \u201ccommitted to the issues,\u201d before the discussion turned to Howard Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said of Dean, \u201cHoward Dean was there for that 50-state strategy, but here\u2019s the issue, Howard Dean is also on record maligning young people and millennials, telling those Bernie folks they just need to get in line, and maligning Bernie Sanders. And that is not what we need. In my opinion, we don\u2019t need white people leading the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in our leadership, and throughout the staff, at the highest levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders concluded that \u201cwe need a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/cnn-s-sanders-we-don-t-need-white-people-leading-the-democratic-party-right-now\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom,\u201d CNN Political Commentator and former National Press Secretary to Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Symone Sanders argued, \u201cwe don\u2019t need white people leading the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in our leadership,\u201d during a discussion on the possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}