Both Democratic presidential candidates are coming to Seattle in the week before Washington’s Democratic caucuses.
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It is not surprising that the bulk of ex-pat Americans would go to Bernie Sanders as Europe is much more liberal than America, making Sanders’s policies not just familiar, but preferable.
“And note Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada and Iowa are generally not considered Deep South”, said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, referring to states she won.
And, most important for Clinton, having an energized and mobilized base of African American women could be the key to winning swing states such as Florida, Virginia and North Carolina in November. “But here is the point: we are halfway through the Democratic nominating process”. Sanders said he and his campaign are “going to do the best we can in any and every way to win”, but he still avoided comment on the specific approach he’s prepared to take. Late Friday, Clinton’s campaign announced she would campaign in Seattle and Everett on Tuesday.
“If we can do well there, we can win a lot of delegates”. A victory in his home state primary Tuesday gave Kasich’s campaign new life and he hit the campaign trail in Pennsylvania with the aim of contrasting the Trump campaign with a more positive vision he is offering voters. Should the person who is behind in pledged delegates concede to the person who is ahead in pledged delegates in Philadelphia? But Sanders argued on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that those officials should follow the lead of the voters.
So even if Sanders loses the popular vote, he would come away with delegates.
Polls could be wrong: They were wrong for the MI primary, where Sanders scored an upset; they could be wrong in Arizona. He also said that although he likes the former Secretary of State, he wants to win the presidential race, which is why he plans to use this new campaign tactic.
That could lead to a contested convention where many delegates would be free to vote for the candidate of their choice after the first ballot, when most of the delegates are bound to support the victor of their state primary or caucus.
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Democrats were very successful by bringing out his past employees and clients and brand him as someone who was out of touch and didn’t care about the typical American voter. Democratic voters overseas could be more progressive overall than their stateside counterparts, one could certainly speculate that they would be more wary of foreign entanglements or maybe they value their privacy. “Never in my lifetime has there been a candidate for president who is as true”.
