La democratic convention starts today. For Hillary Clinton the long-awaited moment of the designation as official candidate of the party for the elections of next November XNUMX, and of the challenge to the cyclone Donald Trump, should have finally arrived, in the midst of a thousand controversies and difficulties.
Yes, because the convention that opens today at Philadelphia, and which closes on July 28, will be fraught with problems for the former first lady. The main one is the new email scandal: Wikileaks, in fact, revealed 19 emails among party leaders, which highlighted a certain partiality of the Dem potentates in favor of Hillary, in her two-way race with Bernie Sanders .
A scandal that brought the chairman of the national party committee Deborah Wasserman Schulz to submit his resignation. The position will be held by the vice president Donna Brazile.
But to disturb Hillary's mood, who also received the unexpected Bloomberg endorsement, there are also demonstrations by the voters of Bernie Sanders, protesting Clinton's candidacy outside Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Arena, despite the socialist senator from Vermont's endorsement for Hillary. These are peaceful demonstrations which, however, give the idea of a split electorate and party.
And party unity is the most important challenge to overcome for the Democratic candidate, the first woman in history to run for the White House. A novelty, however, which ends up fading in the face of Sanders' revolutionary reach and the homo novus Trump who has managed, with few exceptions, to coagulate the consensus of the Republican party around himself.
Hillary Clinton, with that cumbersome surname, represents in the eyes of many a member of that same constituted power, the establishment, which many would like to overthrow, and lacks the personal charisma to warm the hearts of her electorate.
A charisma that, on the other hand, is not lacking in Obama. The outgoing president Barack and the very popular Michelle will speak at the Convention to try to unite the party around the figure of Clinton. Sanders himself will also take the stage to reaffirm his carefully negotiated support for Hillary. And to bring together a party that, a few months before the elections, seems to have a great need to be united in order to win.
