Clinton To Clarify Convention Role

Senator Clinton will hold an online chat with supporters today to discuss her role at the Democratic National Convention later this month. Some die-hard backers of the New York senator have pushed to have her name called in a symbolic roll call vote at the convention to honor her historic candidacy, but many Democrats are concerned that such a move would highlight lingering tensions in the party from its hard-fought primary. ABC News reported last night that Mrs. Clinton told supporters at a private fund-raiser that the move had not been ruled out. She announced today’s online chat in a video message e-mailed to supporters in which she thanked them for contributions to her effort to retire her campaign debt.