Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz will resign at the end of the party’s convention this week after a firestorm over leaked e-mails that showed committee staffers favored Hillary Clinton and attempted to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders.
Wasserman Schultz faced pressure to resign for months from supporters of Sanders, who battled Clinton for the party’s nomination. Those calls reached a crescendo after Wikileaks on Friday released almost 20,000 DNC e-mails, some of which showed party leadership leaning in support of Clinton’s presidential campaign during the Democratic primary.
