Sunday · July 24, 2016

DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Announces She Will Step Down After a Leak of DNC Staff Emails

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On Sunday, July 24, 2016, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would step down as chair after a leak of DNC staff emails. NPR described the leak as one that “revealed a bias against Bernie Sanders inside the Democratic National Committee.” That is NPR’s characterization. In one email out of the 20,000 leaked, NPR wrote, the chief financial officer Brad Marshall “appears to float an idea” to question Sanders’ Jewish faith.

The perception and the record, side by side

Sanders, to CNN that morning: “the function of the DNC” is to represent all candidates, and he believed the DNC was “at opposition to our campaign” all along. That is his characterization. The sources read here include no party finding about the emails.

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[1] Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Step Down As Democratic Chair After Convention — NPR via GBH · Jul 24, 2016 Tier 2
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The Cascade Ledger. “DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Announces She Will Step Down After a Leak of DNC Staff Emails.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, July 24, 2016. https://capturecascade.org/event/2016-07-24--dnc-chair-wasserman-schultz-announces-she-will-step-down-after-email-leak/