http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-supporters-226415 How Clinton quelled an insurgency
She relied on the graciousness of a rival to help silence her critics and present a unified picture to a national audience.
By Annie Karni, Gabriel Debenedetti and Edward-Isaac Dovere
07/29/16 01:15 AM EDT
PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton sat in a locker room in the bowels of the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, watching President Barack Obama make the case for passing her the baton.
With her longtime aides Huma Abedin and Capricia Marshall by her side, she grew emotional watching her onetime rival bring down the hall — at one point placing her hand over her chest as she watched.
Gone from the convention floor were the pro-Bernie Sanders protesters who had disrupted speakers on the opening day of the convention. The “Not For Sale!” chants were replaced with exclamations of “We Love You;” the anti-TPP signs overwhelmed in a sea of “Yes We Can” posters distributed to delegates on the floor — Obama’s famous 2008 rallying cry, now printed in the Clinton campaign’s official font, a customized version of Sharp Sans entitled, appropriately, “Unity.”
more
