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.
{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.
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.