This poll, of course, was taken before Sanders’ blowout win in Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Clinton has been sharpening her attack against Sanders as an out-of-touch demagogue who won’t be able to deliver on his promises.
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Sanders and Clinton are barreling toward the NY primary later this month, and the duo are increasingly tangling in heated, tense campaign trail exchanges.
Republican Ted Cruz stormed to a commanding victory in Wisconsin Tuesday, denting front-runner Donald Trump’s chances of capturing the GOP nomination before the party’s convention. He chose to spend primary night instead at a rally in Wyoming, which holds its Democratic caucus on Saturday.
To try to keep Sanders at bay in the state, the Clinton campaign opened an office in Hartford on Monday and another in New Britain on Wednesday with the help of superdelegate Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District.
“If there is a large voter turnout, we will win here, and if we win here, we’re going to have a bounce going into New York State, where I think we can win”, he added.
Clinton did tweet congratulations to Sanders, but Trump released a statement attacking Cruz, once again calling him “Lyin’ Ted”.
A CNN delegate estimate shows Clinton with 1,780 delegates – 1,297 pledged, 483 super delegates – to Sanders’ 1,099 – 1,068 pledged, 31 super delegates.
The Vermont senator has boasted that, in contrast to Clinton, his campaign is powered by small-dollar, online donations.
Still, with Wisconsin in the books, 50 per cent of Democratic delegates remain.
On the eve of voting in Wisconsin, Clinton’s campaign manager argued that Sanders’ only path to victory “relies on overturning the will of the voters”.
We’re going to ask about Wisconsin in a second, but we’ve been talking about Bernie Sanders’ New York Daily News interview.
Clinton’s trustworthiness problem existed before Sanders emerged as a serious threat, but Sanders’ apparent authenticity and sincerity has only exacerbated an underlying problem.
In recent days, she has accused the Sanders campaign of lying about her support from fossil fuel interests and scolded Sanders protesters who disrupted a rally near her hometown. “And yet it would seal the deal even more for Hillary Clinton” because she would expand her delegate lead, he said. True, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton are ahead in the delegate count, but they are still facing opposition. The Texas senator was poised to collect most of Wisconsin’s 42 Republican delegates. Clinton lost the 2008 presidential primary and she doesn’t want a repeat. But his campaign team appears in disarray; it has never been strong on traditional ground-game politics; and the candidate himself has misplaced his previous, nearly preternatural sense of what he can and can’t say.
In his interview with the Daily News Sanders said there were circumstances where he supported legal action against gunmakers.
“Unless he takes some superdelegates away, it’s going to be a very hard road for him to get to the nomination”, explained Eyewitness News Political Analyst Joe Fleming. She, of course, sweeps super-delegates, but they can change their minds at any time.
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‘You don’t get to the real issues as to why people are hurting, you scapegoat, ‘ Sanders said of Trump’s tactics.
