DEMOCRATS FACE ANOTHER EMAIL SCANDAL

Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in the wake of
the email hack on DNC party insiders,
photo courtesy of the guardian.com

Well...if the Democrats hoped for a scandal-less convention that dream ended very early into the week: a hack of emails exchanged between Democratic National Committee members suggested that there was an attempt to try and undermine Bernie Sanders as a legitimate candidate, going as far as plans to attack his personal beliefs.

Bernie Sanders being the true team-player that he has been during this campaign attempted to address some of his most loyal supporters but had a reverse anti-Cruz moment in which he was boo'ed for trying to endorse and support the candidate that defeated him in the primaries: Hillary Clinton.

Despite this division between Sanders' supporters and Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chair of the DNC that resigned due to her involvement in the email scandal, was "picked up" by Clinton's campaign team - a move that I can only imagine will only further agitate angry Sanders' supporters.

Unfortunately for the Democratic Party this scandal was unraveling as polling data came in revealing that Donald Trump is leading in the national average poll. It's becoming an even more (scarily) realistic possibility that Trump may defeat Clinton in November; the main reasoning I have for this thinking is that it seems as though absolutely nothing can hurt Trump's image at this point.

After former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes resigned following a sexual harassment scandal Donald Trump defended him and his reputation, going as far to say that he would "think about" having Ailes join his campaign team.

WOW has it been a busy week and a half, with still another pivotal half of the convention left for the Democratic Party.

References
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Media Matters staff. (2016) Washington Post reports 25 women have come forward to accuse former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to work on campaign. Media Matters. Retrieved from http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/22/washington-post-reports-25-women-have-come-forward-accuse-former-fox-ceo-ailes-harassment/211847.
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(Trump's polling trends, real clear politics - Melania's speech)