In this past week’s Florida primary, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won their respective primaries by huge margins both statewide and in Orlando’s own Orange County – but these focus group participants were not on board.
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“It’s easy for bullies like Sheriff Arpaio to pick on people who have no power, but if I’m elected president, the president of the United States does have the power”, Mr. Sanders said. Barack Obama held over Clinton in the 2008 primary.
“I prefer to save the taxpayers of Missouri some money”, he said. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a much bigger lead – 1,614 to 856.
Mr. Sanders blitzed through Idaho, Utah and Arizona ahead of crucial nominating contests in those states on Tuesday.
“She’s talking to minorities now, not really to white people, and that’s a mistake”, said Mr Dennis Bertko, 66, a construction project manager in Youngstown, Ohio. “They’re not giving me what I feel we need as a country”, another woman explained. In the interview, he pointed to upcoming contests in Washington state, NY and California as states where he could cut into Clinton’s delegate lead.
Sanders also rejected claims by Clinton’s allies that his message had turned overly negative in recent weeks.
“We have never run a negative ad. But not to discuss Secretary Clinton’s record, well, that’s what a campaign is about”.
Another man said it’s time for a third-party option: “I can not support the Republican Party as it now exists”.
Undeterred by questions of delegate math or political momentum, Senator Bernie Sanders brushed off suggestions on Friday that his campaign had no way forward and forcefully made the case that he was the Democratic candidate better suited to defeat Donald J. Trump in a general election.
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Clinton has stepped up her campaigning against Donald Trump, the leading contender for the Republican nomination.
