When asked if there would come a point when Sanders tones down his criticisms of the front-runner, as Clinton did late in the 2008 race, Sanders senior campaign adviser Tad Devine said he’d see what happens on Tuesday.
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Clinton said people are often shocked by Trump’s incendiary statements. After all, it was Trump who said last month if he didn’t win, “I think you’d have riots”.
One the other side of the aisle, Republicans have also been effected by closed primaries: two of Donald Trump’s children were unable to vote for their father in the NY primary because they didn’t change their party affiliation in time.
After her victory in NY this past week, Clinton has a lead over Sanders of more than 200 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.
“I think we’re in very good shape to have her be the first woman nominee to a major party ticket in this country”, Podesta added.
Host Chuck Todd pointed out that 17 of the 25 states with the highest levels of income inequality have held primaries, and Clinton won 16 of those – even though Sanders has made fighting income inequality the central message of his campaign.
“It is a more conservative region, ” Jealous, a former newspaper editor and student organizer in MS, said of the Deep South. “The Clintons have been wildly popular with Democratic voters in the Deep South for a long time, just like Bernie has been wildly popular in northern New England for a long time…” She briefly mentioned his handling of gun control at an event Friday in Pennsylvania, as she did a day earlier with CT family members of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
“Not at all. I mean Donald Trump lives in his own world, he insults everybody for every reason”, Sanders said. During a stop in Baltimore, he argued that “poverty is a death sentence”, citing figures showing a discrepancy between the life expectancies of people born in rich and poor neighborhoods in that city.
Clinton’s event in the Philadelphia suburbs was focused on ensuring equal pay for women and she was joined by Lilly Ledbetter, who inspired the namesake fair pay law signed by President Barack Obama that aimed to make it easier for women to sue over wage discrimination. Japanese firms said in a Reuters poll released on Wednesday that a Trump presidency would harm security partnerships.
“Everything I say I’m going to do, folks, I’ll do”, he said. “It’s pretty remarkable when you think about it”.
Doug Schwartz, the director of the Hamden-based Quinnipiac University Poll, noted that CT has a history of upsets in Democratic primaries, which have included U.S. Sen. She also plans on voting for Sanders on Tuesday, but is not confident he can win the primary.
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Hillary Clinton greets a room of supporters in Jenkintown, Penn., on Friday.
