“I get the feeling he never played sports as a kid, because you learn how to read a scoreboard and you learn how to leave the field gracefully”, said Mike McKenna, a Republican Party strategist. Or to prove, in fact, that the current circular firing squad is the Republican Party and not the Democrats.
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█ We don’t have much of a race. The Cruz campaign has been assiduous in tracking the delegate selection process, working to ensure delegate slots go to his supporters. I prefer the latter, thank you. Mrs Clinton, from the Democratic Party, called her Republican rival “dangerous” in her victory speech while Mr Trump returned the compliment at a rally by calling the former secretary of state “crooked”. It’s a rule that bars Sanders from bringing a crush of independents to the polls on his behalf, as he has in numerous states he’s won. And there are only a total of five contests during all of May.
“After her win in NY this week, these numbers in nearby Pennsylvania suggest that the entire northeast is looking pretty good for the Clinton campaign”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement accompanying the poll’s release. No more attack ads. No more questioning her “qualifications” or even “judgment”. More than 96 percent of Sanders’ money comes from donors who have not maxed-out to his primary campaign and can give again.
The month of May is important in setting the stage for November.
Winning by a wide margin in NY means Hillary Clinton is back on track to become the Democratic nominee for US President.
ANDREA MITCHELL: If after June 7th, after California, if you don’t have a majority, if she has a majority and more of the popular vote, would you then concede, endorse her the way she did of Barack Obama? Bernie should do the same, especially after this week of competing in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to an excited crowd Thursday in Reading, Pennsylvania. And how does he believe a contested convention could work to his advantage?
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Kornacki asked Weaver to lay out his path for overtaking Clinton’s pledged delegate lead-she’s roughly 235 ahead after New York-through the remaining contests. They have a right to select who they want to see lead that agenda. Leave that to the Republicans.
