NJ Delegates Excited For Clinton Speech
ESSINGTON, PA (CBS) -- All eyes are on Hillary Clinton as the Democratic National Convention winds down. Members of the New Jersey delegation are looking to their Presidential candidate to deliver a message that unites the party behind her.
It's time to put the Bernie Sanders drama in the rear view mirror, as delegate Idida Rodriguez sees it. She understands how some diehard Bernie backers, particularly younger ones, might feel like children being told they can't get their way. But it's time to get with the program.
And she thinks many of them will do just that.
"Are we going to be having a kumbaya moment? I hope so. Anything is possible," Rodriguez told KYW Newsradio. "But if not, I think we will get there. Is it going to happen one hundred percent? No. But I think maybe 70-75 percent."
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Just ask Hetty Rosenstein, president of the New Jersey chapter of the Communications Workers of America, the state's largest public sector union. She's in the Sanders camp.
"I think we came into the convention with an understanding that we're going to come out of it trying to defeat Donald Trump," she said, "and the Bernie platform and the work that Bernie has done is going to make it a lot easier to do so."
So will a strong, inclusive message from candidate Clinton.
