Sanders’ win Saturday affords him bragging rights and bolsters his argument that his campaign is gaining momentum.
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And despite Americans’ overall preference for Clinton on a host of issues, just 20 percent say she represents their own views very well on matters they care about, while 23 percent say somewhat well.
Sanders, behind Clinton by hundreds of delegates, is pointing to statewide wins in seven of the last eight state contests.
“We have cut Secretary Clinton’s delegate lead by 101 since March 15, which amounts to one-third of her then-total margin”, Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver, said in a statement. She’s fine. And she’s definitely not having a panic attack about winning big in New York City to lock in the majority of her home state’s fat stack of 291 delegates.
During an interview that aired Sunday on CNN, Sanders said that while he believes that Clinton has the experience to be president, her initial support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and her previous support for various global trade agreements raised red flags. Clinton argued,”You may have heard Senator Sanders call me unqualified to be president”. “And I think that’s kind of important if we’re selecting someone to be the Democratic nominee of the Democratic Party”.
Sanders has been making every attempt to whittle away at Clinton’s advantage.
“Ted Cruz finished Colorado’s delegate fight the way he started it: With overwhelming victory”.
Paul Manafort, the veteran political strategist Trump hired to oversee his delegate operation, accused the Cruz campaign of bullying delegates into backing the senator, something the Trump campaign planned to protest. Sanders said to cheers. Fifty-one percent say they wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, though she still does better than any of the Republican candidates on that measure. Both are concentrating their efforts on the key NY primary later this month. Numerous upcoming primaries are closed to Democrats only, so the independent voters that Sanders has been doing very well with won’t be able to vote.
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While there may be concerns about millennials and voter participation, referring to them as “entitled” and equating that with supporting Sanders further alienates the demographic and the 25 percent of Sanders’ supporters who won’t vote for Hillary in November. “If they don’t get what they want, they blow it up”.
