Associated Press
The Latest on the Democratic National Convention and 2016 presidential campaign. (all times EDT):
7:10 p.m.
A Hillary Clinton campaign adviser says he’s not worried about winning over Bernie Sanders’ supporters.
“Most of them are going to come around.”
That’s what John Podesta thinks.
Podesta says he knows there are some in the Sanders camp who are still “emotional” and wish Clinton didn’t win more votes than the Vermont senator in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But Podesta says most of Sanders’ supporters are looking at the election as a choice between Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
Podesta spoke after some Sanders delegates at the party’s convention wore neon yellow shirts to protest Clinton’s nomination.
6:50 p.m.
Some Bernie Sanders supporters are wearing glow-in-the-dark shirts on the final night of Democrats convention in Philadelphia.
They say it’s a way to remind presidential nominee Hillary Clinton that she hasn’t brought them all on board yet.
For Clinton, the silent protest probably is preferable to the heckling and booing from that marked the early days of the convention.
Sanders delegate Davena Norris says her bright shirt is meant to send a message that more needs to be done to curb the influence of money in politics.
6:45 p.m.
Donald Trump is campaigning in Iowa and largely avoiding the topic that earned him lots of criticism this week.
Only a day ago Trump encouraged Russia to find and make public missing emails deleted by his Democratic presidential opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s comments raised the question of whether he was condoning foreign government hacking of U.S. computers and the public release of information stolen from political adversaries.
Trump was condemned by Clinton and even some of his fellow Republicans. Running mate Mike Pence warned of “serious consequences” if Russia interfered in the election.
Trump has since insisted he was being sarcastic.
At the Iowa rally, he did say he wanted better relations with Russia and joked that writing letters was more secure than “putting something on a computer.”
5:40 p.m.
Donald Trump says “a lot of lies are being told” about him in the speeches at the Democratic National Convention this week.
The Republican presidential nominee is joking about it during a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa.
“Boy, I’m getting hit” by Democrats – he says. “I guess they have to do their thing.”
Trump is criticizing Democrats for not talking about terrorism or laying out a plan to aid the economy.
4:25 p.m.
Die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters from Oregon’s delegation say they’re demanding a nationally televised apology at the Democratic National Convention before Hillary Clinton takes the stage Thursday night to accept the presidential nomination.
The matter involves leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee that indicated party officials were biased against the Vermont senator.
The DNC has apologized and the party’s leader, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is resigning her post.
But Melissa Pancurak tells The Associated Press that those steps don’t go far enough. She says the Oregon delegates are part of a coalition of Sanders supporters working to get their demand to appropriate DNC officials before Clinton’s speech.
4:20 p.m.
Donald Trump’s stand on abortion has been inconsistent, but his running says Trump would be a “pro-life president.”
Mike Pence is campaigning in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he makes clear he opposes abortion. And the Indiana governor tells a town hall rally, “I don’t apologize for it.”
Pence drew the ire of abortion rights advocates in March after he signed a law banning abortions that were being sought because of fetal genetic defects. That law has since been blocked pending the outcome of a court challenge.
Pence says Trump would appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court who would send the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling to the “ash heap of history.”
4 p.m.
“Disrespectful.”
That’s what Elijah Cummings thinks of liberal supporters of Bernie Sanders who chanted an anti-trade slogan during the Maryland congressman’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
But Cummings says he’s not upset about it because he’s a veteran of civil rights protests and understands the passion that drove the mostly young delegates to shout over his speech Monday.
Cummings says in an interview that most of those who were shouting probably didn’t know he worked with Sanders to draft the Democratic platform and he’s “never voted for a trade bill in 20 years in Congress.”
He says more than 100 people have apologized to him for the outbursts.
2:37 p.m.
President Barack Obama‘s mention of “fascists” and “homegrown demagogues” in his convention speech wasn’t aimed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
That’s what White House press secretary Josh Earnest is telling reporters the day after Obama argued for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s election over Trump.
Obama said “anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.”
Obama had criticized Trump several times before arriving at that particular line in the speech, including saying that American power “doesn’t come from a self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way.”
Trump said in his acceptance speech at last week’s GOP convention that “I alone can fix” a political system he says is rigged.
2:19 p.m.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is giving Hillary Clinton credit for her work on behalf of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Giuliani was asked at a Republican Party briefing Thursday in Philadelphia whether he took issue with the Democratic convention speakers who’d been praising Clinton. Giuliani said she was “enormously supportive and helpful.” Clinton was a U.S. senator from New York at the time.
He says Clinton “has a right to tell people that she worked hard on behalf of the 9/11 families.” He adds that, “She did.”
But Giuliani adds that “on all other aspects she fails the test.” Clinton and Democrats, he says, have “not done anything to prevent another attack.”
1:50 p.m.
This time, Bill Clinton will be the adoring spouse, rapt and smiling when the cameras cut away from the candidate in the spotlight.
He’ll be the He in the VIP box watching as She accepts the presidential nomination at the Democratic convention on Thursday.
It’s one small step in the role reversal Americans will need to get used to if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November.
Already, satires and spoofs are circulating, taking note of Bill’s fashion choices, accessories and hair style. How about that fetching pantsuit! And that nice head of hair! Whose shoes is he wearing?
After all, that’s what political wives have come to expect.
Bill Clinton, utterly comfortable in his own skin, seems to be just fine with trading places with his wife, the former first lady.
10:28 a.m.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says the CIA should give Donald Trump “fake intelligence briefings” because he can’t be trusted.
The Nevada lawmaker tells reporters in Philadelphia that “they shouldn’t give him anything that means anything because you can’t trust him.”
Reid was responding to Trump’s call for Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.
He says he’s sure the agency is aware of his suggestion.
He also says Trump may have violated the Logan Act that bars unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
9:56 a.m.
The North Carolina Republican Party has removed a tweet criticizing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine for wearing a pin honoring his son’s military service.
The tweet posted during Kaine’s Democratic National Convention speech Wednesday night said Kaine “wears a Honduras flag pin on his jacket but no American flag. Shameful.”
The pin in question has a single blue star against a white background outlined in red. It’s the same design as the Service Flag, which is reserved for families who have members serving in the military during wartime. The flag of Honduras has five stars against a blue and white striped background. Kaine’s son is a Marine set to be deployed to Europe.
The party hasn’t responded to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
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