Donna Brazile: ‘Bernie came through’

by Jesse Byrnes - 07/26/16 9:27 AM ET

Donna Brazile, the interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said Tuesday that Bernie Sanders “came through” in backing Hillary Clinton this week.

Brazile praised the Vermont senator after he delivered a speech Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

If bringing people together was easy, we’d all be together and we wouldn’t even need to bother with campaigns or elections, right?

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 26, 2016

Bernie came through and inspired us to keep fighting. He told us to never surrender our dreams but to focus on the goal in November.

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 26, 2016

People who call themselves progressives can’t let themselves be manipulated by Donald Trump… or Vladimir Putin. We have better angels.

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 26, 2016

Being president is about challenges, and although Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have chosen this one, she will certainly meet it. #DemsInPhilly

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 26, 2016

{mosads}Sanders officially endorsed Clinton on July 12, but many of his supporters appeared reluctant to get behind the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Tensions between Sanders supporters and the DNC also flared after a massive email leak that showed some DNC officials weighing how to undermine Sanders.

Democrats hoped Sanders’s speech Monday night would calm his supporters and unify the party.

The former Democratic presidential hopeful in his speech said he’d continue his “political revolution” while urging supporters to back Clinton.

“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president, and I am proud to stand with her here tonight,” Sanders told a packed and boisterous Wells Fargo Center.

Sanders wasn’t the only high-profile speaker to urge unity on Monday night.

First lady Michelle Obama sought to bring an end to the extraordinarily divisive first day of the Democratic convention with a widely praised speech in which she ripped GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sanders followed her speech with appeals to the liberal wing of the party, urging them to support Clinton in the face of a Trump presidency.

Brazile on Tuesday also made light of last week’s controversy over Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention, which took phrases from the first lady’s 2008 convention address.

Michelle Obama’s speech was so great that I bet somebody will give it at the next GOP convention. #DemsInPhilly. Oh, copy that!

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 26, 2016

Brazile, who has been a commentator on ABC and CNN, stepped in as the interim head of the DNC after Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday she’d resign this week in the wake of the WikiLeaks email dump.

Brazile and other DNC officials on Monday apologized to Sanders for the “inexcusable” emails.

Tags Bernie Sanders Donald Trump Elizabeth Warren Hillary Clinton Michelle Obama