The Jenkintown event offered a glimpse of how Clinton may seek to appeal to suburban women whose votes could be up for grabs in a general election against Republican Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
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Others took the statement as a sign of the growing desperation on the part of the Sanders campaign.
Even as his team pressed Trump’s case, he raised fresh concern among some conservatives by speaking against North Carolina’s “bathroom law”, which directs transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the sex on their birth certificates.
The developments came as the GOP’s messy fight for the White House spilled into a seaside resort in south Florida. NY has a penchant for electing smart, strong, dynamic people to represent it. New Yorkers aren’t anxious about where you were born they are more concerned with what you stand for and if you can keep up with them. The Associated Press obtained a recording of the discussion.
“He gets it”, Manafort said of Trump’s need to moderate his personality. “The image is going to change”, he added.
“He’s trying to moderate”.
Much of Clinton’s spending has gone to build long-term capabilities with data, in the field and prospecting for small donors that will pay continuing dividends through an increasingly likely fall campaign, they said, and Clinton remained on budget for the primary race.
While Trump’s top advisers were promising Republican leaders that the GOP front-runner would moderate his message, the candidate was telling voters he wasn’t ready to act presidential.
“At some point, I’m going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored”, he said, predicting that the size of his crowds would dwindle if he dialed back his rhetoric.
That’s especially true on the Democratic side.
“More importantly, we now have a situation where, you know, on the record, very publicly, senior people within the Sanders’ campaign have made it very clear that their new strategy is that, at the end of the day, if Hillary Clinton has both more pledged delegates and right now she leads by over 200, and that even if she has more actual votes … they’re going to do something incredibly undemocratic and unprecedented and that is try to flip superdelegates”, Finney said.
Over the past week both Clinton and Sanders maneuvered through the streets of NY, meeting and greeting residents of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.
Sanders needs to win all the remaining contests by a 20-point margin to catch up to Clinton in pledged delegates.
Confident that she would finally bag the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton appeared to have gone into a full campaign mode by training her gun on potential Republican opponent Donald Trump.
Trump’s new campaign chief Paul Manafort told the delegates at their Florida retreat Thursday that Trump was entering a new, more professional phase. Outside contributions to his campaign now total $12.2 million for the election cycle.
“He’s willing to spend what is necessary to finish this out”. Tuesday is no different, as all but one of the contests (Rhode Island) in these Northeast states are closed primaries.
Snatching most of the Republican delegates at stake April 26 would propel him that much closer to reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to nail down the nomination.
Which brings us to Trump and where we are today – in which a highly unpopular Democrat would be taking on an improbably unpopular Republican in November.
For the unity ticket, the campaigns had agreed that the delegates sent to the national convention should be actual supporters of the candidates they were awarded to, based on the results of the March 5 caucuses, and so each candidate’s slots – in ME, 12 for Cruz, nine for Trump, and two for Kasich – should be filled with people selected by their campaign.
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Countywide, Trump pulled in 2,337 votes, Kasich was second with 1,741, Cruz was third with 974 and Carson was last with 78. The Texas senator called Trump’s position “a reckless policy that will endanger our loved ones”.
