On Wednesday’s At This Hour, CNN’s Kate Bolduan lobbied Bernie Sanders’s senior media adviser, Tad Devine, to lighten up in his campaign’s attacks on Hillary Clinton, following the Vermont senator’s loss in the NY primary: “Bernie Sanders said there’s no change in strategy moving forward”.
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There are 17 other delegates who are bound on the first ballot to vote for the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote. The only way either can win is by emerging from a contested convention this summer in Cleveland. The campaign shifts to primaries Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware.
“Donald, with a characteristic display of humility, declared this race is over”, Cruz said. “He’s got to win them big, he’s got to win them by landslide and I don’t see that happening”.
Despite not having the numbers Clinton has, Trump is overwhelmingly in the lead. A Democratic candidate needs 2,383 delegates to secure the nomination, and there are still 1,692 delegates available.
Clinton is moving quickly to cast herself as the all-but-certain nominee. Her margin of victory – if repeated in states like Pennsylvania next week – could pressure her opponent, Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, to drop out.
According to reports, Ben Carson dropped out of the GOP race weeks ago after failing to win in the initial primaries in the states where voting was conducted.
Her win made it almost impossible for Sanders, 74, to overtake her commanding lead in delegates needed to win the nomination.
Aides to Pence, who has not endorsed a candidate, said Trump requested the private meeting.
Looking at just superdelegates, Clinton has 502, while Sanders has 38. In the last couple of weeks, she’s been receiving as many as 15 emails a day from Sanders supporters trying to convince her to switch her vote.
While Sanders was able to draw crowds, in a closed primary without independents and new voters who have flocked to Sanders, Clinton was able to win with strong support from long-time Democrats, minorities and women, he said. “I don’t know how much more qualified one can be”. A surrogate for Cruz, former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, did the same on Tuesday, while national party committee members backing Kasich are meeting with delegates this week, the campaigns said.
Trump met with the state’s governor, Mike Pence and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, ahead of the rally.
Clinton strategist Joel Benenson countered that Clinton’s NY win makes her lead “even more insurmountable”.
But there was hesitation, despite expressing confidence in what they want to see if Trump wins his party’s nomination, including his ability to keep Americans safe, create jobs, and overhaul some of the Obama administration’s policies. More than half of that went to advertising. Fifty-six percent of people surveyed had a negative view of her, an all-time high, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll earlier this week.
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Trump’s IN campaign stop will be followed by a Ted Cruz speech on Thursday at a state Republican Party fundraiser IN Indianapolis. She’s struggled with younger voters and liberal activists, whose enthusiasm will be necessary to fuel her general election bid.
