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		</div><p>The Democratic convention got off to a bad start in Philadelphia with the resignation of the chairwoman of the party&#8217;s national committee over an email scandal.</p>
<p>It was a blow to Hillary Clinton who arrives in the city eager to show off a united party after a tough campaign against Bernie Sanders.</p>
<p>Debbie Wasserman Schultz quit a few days after the publication of 19,000 hacked emails, which Mr Sanders said confirmed his belief that the national party had favoured Mrs Clinton during the contest.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton has been dogged during the campaign by controversy over her use of a secret email server when she was secretary of state, which led to chants of &#8220;lock her up&#8221; by delegates at last week&#8217;s Republican National Convention.</p>
<p>Ms Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after Mr Sanders urged her to go.</p>
<p>&#8220;The party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>However he made it clear that he wants to see Mrs Clinton defeat Republican candidate Donald Trump and make it to the White House.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton and to keep focusing, keep focusing on the real issues facing the American people,&#8221; Mr Sanders said on CNN.</p>
<p>Ms Wasserman Schultz&#8217;s abrupt departure was undoubtedly an effort to keep the Democrats&#8217; gathering from suffering the problems that marred last week&#8217;s Republican convention.</p>
<p>Runner-up Ted Cruz pointedly and publicly refused to endorse Mr Trump, and was booed by many delegates, while there was a plagiarism row involving the candidate&#8217;s wife, Melania Trump.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton and President Barack Obama both quickly praised the departed party chief, hoping to move past the controversy and onto the convention&#8217;s Monday launch.</p>
<p>Mr Sanders will address the convention on Monday night, and Mr Obama will speak on Wednesday night. Other high-profile speakers include first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>The Philadelphia area has been hit by an oppressive heatwave, and supporters of Mr Sanders are expected to hold major demonstrations.</p>
<p>In one of the largest rallies planned for the day, a pro-Sanders group is expected to walk across the Ben Franklin Bridge, which connects Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.<br />
The rallies have been peaceful, so far.</p>
<p>On Sunday, throngs of people marched along a main road in the city to show their support for Mr Sanders and their disdain for Mrs Clinton.</p>
<p>They chanted &#8220;Hell no, DNC, we won&#8217;t vote for Hillary&#8221; and &#8220;This is what democracy looks like&#8221;.</p>
<p>Never one to miss an opportunity to poke fun at his rivals, Mr Trump appeared to relish the Democratic chaos, writing on Twitter: &#8220;The Dems Convention is cracking up.&#8221;</p>
<p>His campaign chief, Paul Manafort, went further and called on Mrs Clinton to drop out of the race altogether.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to put the blame for the email leak on to &#8220;Russian state actors&#8221; who, he said, may have breached party computers &#8220;for the purpose of helping Donald Trump&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was concerning last week that Donald Trump changed the Republican platform to become what some experts would regard as pro-Russian,&#8221; Mr Mook said.</p>
<p>Party wrangles aside, Mrs Clinton is within days of her long-held ambition to become the party&#8217;s official presidential nominee.</p>
<p>After the DNC released a slightly trimmed list of superdelegates &#8211; the party officials who can back any candidate &#8211; it now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. Mr Sanders has 1,893.</p>
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